724 — Number of the plant

at the book: The Mother. The Spiritual Significance of Flowers.- 1-st Ed. / Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry (India).- Singapore: Ho Printing, 2000.- ISBN 81-7058-609-7

Classification

► Division Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants

► Class Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons

► Subclass Asteridae

► Order Gentianales

► Family Apocynaceae - Dogbane family

► Subfamily Apocynoideae

► Tribe Wrightieae

► Genus Nerium L. - Oleander

Synonyms

(=) Nerium indicum Mill.

Nerium odoratum

(=) Nerium odorum Aiton

Nerium verecundum

Common names

Indian oleander (English)

Oleander (English)

Rose bay (English)

Rosebay shrub (English)

Rose-laurel (English)

Sweet scented oleander (English)

Laurier (French)

Laurier-rose (French)

Oleandre (French)

 

Oleander (German)

Олеандр (Russian)

Олеандр душистый (Russian)

Олеандр обыкновенный (Russian)

Adelfa (Spanish)

Balandre (Spanish)

Laurel rosa (Spanish)

Pascua (Spanish)

 

Raktakarabi (India (Bengali))

Chandni (India (Hindi))

Ganer (India (Hindi))

Kaner (India (Hindi))

Asvamaraka (India (Sanskrit))

Chandata (India (Sanskrit))

Karaveera (India (Sanskrit))

Karavira (India (Sanskrit))

Alari (India (Tamil))

Arali (India (Tamil))

 

Kyochiku-to (Japanese)

 

Selonsroos (Afrikaans)

 

Espirradeira (Brazil (Portuguese))

Oleandro (Brazil (Portuguese))

Description

Sweetly fragrant single salverform flower with five separated lobes and twisted suggesting a pinwheel, and a light yellow centre with a delicate fringed corona; borne in loose cymes. A prolific flowering shrub with stiff lanceolate leaves.