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  • COMMON NAME: Campanilla, Lucky Nut, Yellow Oleander.
  • ARABIC: حبن، عصفر
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Cascabela thevetia (L.) H. Lippold
  • SYNONYMS: Thevetia peruviana (Pers.) Schum.
  • FAMILY: APOCYNACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah
  • CATEGORIES: Landscape (L)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Toxicity: highly poisonous leaves. All parts of the C. thevetia plant are toxic to most vertebrates as they contain cardiac glycosides. Many cases of intentional and accidental poisoning of humans are known. (Langford, Boor, 1996). The main toxins are the cardenolides called aglikon, thevetin A and thevetin B; others include peruvoside, neriifolin, thevetoxin and ruvoside (Bose et al., 1999; Kohls et al., 2012).
Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE. https://landscapeplants.oregonstate.edu/plants/thevetia-peruviana V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Moderate in salinity and drought tolerance, mainly ornamental plant.
Evergreen, compact shrub, 2-3 meters high. Stems leafy, with milky poisonous juice, densely branched above. Leaves yellowish-green, alternate or whorled, linear lanceolate, tapering at base to short stalk, entire, 3-7cm long, 1-2cm broad. Flowers terminal, large, showy 3-7cm across, funnel or trumpet-shaped, golden-yellow. Fruit a drupe, apple-sized, with one seed. flowering in spring.
Cultivated in sandy soil, tolerates salinity.
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