Family: Apocynaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Shrub
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Not Native, Naturalized
Native Range:
South America, and perhaps elsewhere in the American tropics. Widely cultivated and naturalized.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Reported in 1920 by Britton & Millspaugh as naturalized from cultivation in thickets on New Providence, near Nassau. Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 1142-1143, with illustrations) for thickets and open, disturbed areas in the northwestern and central Commonwealth (regions 8, 4).
Synonyms:
Cascabela thevetia, Cerbera thevetia.
