Home Exhibition Hall Photo Album Digital Camera Tip & Trick About Me Enter your search terms Submit search form Oleander is an evergreen shrub or small tree in the dogbane family. It is native to a broad area from Morocco and Portugal eastward through the Mediterranean region and southern Asia to Yunnan in southern China It typically occurs around dry stream beds. It grows to 2-6 metres tall, with spreading to erect branches. The leaves are in pairs or whorls of three, thick and leathery, dark green, narrow lanceolate, 5-21 centimetres long and 1-3.5 centimetres broad, and with an entire margin. The flowers grow in clusters at the end of each branch; they are white, pink or yellow, 2.5-5 centimetres diameter, with a deeply 5-lobed corolla with a fringe round the central corolla tube. They are often, but not always, sweetly scented. The fruit is a long narrow capsule 5-23 centimetres long, which splits open at maturity to release numerous downy seeds. Pictures in this photo album were taken by digital camera and resized to 1600x1197. Click the pictures to enlarge Size:358Kb Size:393Kb Size:170Kb Size:141Kb Size:161Kb Size:117Kb Size:152Kb Size:114Kb Size:123Kb Size:126Kb Size:118Kb Size:117Kb Size:141Kb Size:124Kb Size:128Kb Size:109Kb Enter your search terms Submit search form This website is hosted by www.agilityhoster.com (C) 2007-2009 All rights reserved.