• Family : APOCYNACEAE
  (Dogbane Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KARONDA FAMILY (करौंदा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : APOCYNACEAE
• Basionym : Cerbera thevetia L.
• Synonym(s) : Thevetia peruviana (Pers.) K.Schum.; Thevetia neriifolia Juss. ex Steud
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cascabela thevetia (L.) Lippold
• Common name : Yellow Oleander, Bestill tree
• Vernacular name : Peeta karaveera (Sanskrit); Pila kaner (Hindi); Arali, Thangarali, Ponnarali, Thiruvaachipoo (Tamil); Pacha gannoru, Patchalari (Telugu); Koniyari, Konyarphul, Holidia kannari, Pila kaner (Oria); Haladi kanageli gida, Karaveera (Kannada); Manja-arali, Mathaarali, Pachchaarali (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Planted
• Comments / notes : Occasional on plains to 1400m, in wasteland. Mostly grown as live fence. Seed poisonous
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
• Native : Tropical America
• World Distribution : Naturalized in tropics
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Cascabela thevetia. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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