apocynaceae

1. Chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers;
   Many are sources of drugs (synset 111787078)
   is a type of: dicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
   member holonym:

   • apocynum, genus apocynum - perennial herbs with small pink or white flowers
   • acocanthera, acokanthera, genus acocanthera, genus acokanthera - small genus of trees and shrubs containing strongly toxic cardiac glycosides; Arabia to Africa
   • adenium, genus adenium - one species: succulent shrub or tree of tropical Africa and Arabia
   • genus allamanda - genus of tropical American woody vines
   • alstonia, genus alstonia - genus of evergreen trees or shrubs with white funnel-shaped flowers and milky sap; tropical Africa to southeastern Asia and Polynesia
   • amsonia, genus amsonia - genus of herbs and subshrubs with milky juice and showy bluish flowers; Europe to Asia Minor to Japan and North America
   • beaumontia, genus beaumontia - small genus of evergreen woody vines in the East Indies and Asia
   • genus carissa - Old World genus of tropical evergreen usually spiny shrubs
   • catharanthus, genus catharanthus - small genus of erect annual or perennial herbs native to Madagascar; widely naturalized in the tropics; formerly included in genus Vinca
   • genus holarrhena, holarrhena - genus of deciduous trees and shrubs of tropical Africa and Asia
   • dipladenia, genus dipladenia, genus mandevilla, mandevilla - genus of tropical South American tuberous perennial woody vines with large racemose flowers and milky sap
   • genus nerium, nerium - one species: oleander
   • genus plumeria, plumeria, plumiera - deciduous shrubs and trees of tropical America having branches like candelabra and fragrant white or pink flowers
   • genus rauvolfia, genus rauwolfia - pantropical genus of somewhat poisonous shrubs and small trees
   • genus strophanthus - genus of tropical Asiatic and African shrubs and woody vines and small trees
   • genus tabernaemontana, tabernaemontana - evergreen tropical trees and shrubs with milky sap
   • genus thevetia, thevetia - genus of poisonous tropical American evergreen shrubs and trees having entire leaves and large cymose flowers
   • genus trachelospermum, trachelospermum - genus of Asiatic woody vines with milky sap in leaves and stems
   • genus vinca, vinca - periwinkles: low creeping evergreen perennials
   belongs to: gentianales, order gentianales - an order of dicotyledonous plants having gamopetalous flowers; Gentianaceae; Apocynaceae; Asclepiadaceae; Loganiaceae; Oleaceae; Salvadoraceae
   same as: dogbane family, family apocynaceae

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