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Oleander

(Nerium oleander)
 
Tall white and red oleander shrubs forming a dense hedge along a sidewalk under large trees.
Close-up of a bright pink oleander flower and long narrow green leaves on a shrub.
 
Description: 

Cultivated shrub to small tree. It grows 8-12 feet in height with narrow lance-shaped leaves 4-12 inches long. They are dark green, leathery and glossy. Two-3 inch flowers are white, pink, red or salmon and they cluster at the ends of branches. Fruits are long slender capsules, the seeds having a tuft of hair.

Poisonous Parts: 
Entire plant