Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Nerium oleander

Flowering stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Yarralumla, ACT

Seeds. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Bogindena Nature Reserve near Temora

Shrub. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, western NSW

Common name

Oleander

Family

Apocynaceae

Where found

Occasionally naturalised. Mostly Sydney area. Doubtfully naturalised in the ACT.

Notes

Introduced shrub or tree to 8m tall.  Leaves in whorls or opposite each other, 5–21 cm long, 10-35 mm wide, leathery, lower surface paler, hairless or hairy, tips pointed.  Flowers white, pink, or red, usually 30-60 mm in diameter, with a funnel-shaped tube and five lobes, in clusters at the ends of the stems.

General Biosecurity Duty all NSW.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Nerium~oleander 
(accessed 23 January, 2021)