Oleander, Poisonous Plants
Oleander is a shrub with beautiful and colorful flowers. It is also one of many poisonous plants. If it is been consumed by children or any pets, it can kill.
The shrub likes full sun and is salt tolerant – being able to grow along the beaches as well as it can stand the polluted air along heavy traffic highways. You may use cuttings to propagate. It is fast growing. You can prune it into shrub or a small tree.
Oleander has a variety of colors: crimson, light pink, pink, red, white and yellow. It begins blooming in the spring, and continues throughout the summer with clusters of showy flowers.
Problem of Oleander: Oleander caterpillar enjoys eating the leaves of the plant and may strip the plant bare, while building blackish “webby” looking nests under roofs and along walls. Aphids and scale insects will also nest on the leaves.
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