Common Name: Climbing Oleander, Cream Fruit

Family: Apocynaceae Juss.

Country of Origin: Tropical West Africa

Habitat: Description: Scandent shrub, to 25 feet or more, glabrous; leaves oblong, to 6 inches long, short-acuminate, veins spreading at right angles to midrib; sepals broad, scarious, corolla white or tinged with pink, tube 1.5 inches long, lobes obovate, to 1 inch long, obtuse, never caudate, with crisped margins, appendages in sinuses lanceolate-subulate, rose-colored, exserted about 5/16 inch; follicles obtusely acuminate, to 15 inches long, seeds glabrous.

The cardiac drug strophanthin is derived from the seeds of this and a few other species.