Haryana Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Haryana (India)
Designed & Developed by Bioinformatics Centre,Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Apocynaceae | Genus: Nerium | Species: Nerium oleander Linn.( कनेर ) |
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| Synonym | Nerium indicum Mill. | Flower Color | Red - Pink |
| Common Name | Kaner | Flower Type | Cyme |
| English / Trade Name | Oleander, French willow, Laurier rose, Rose laurel | Flowering Period | July-Sept |
| Vernacular /Local Name | Kaner | Fruiting Period | Jan-March |
| Altitude | About 1000 m | Fruit Type | Capsule |
| Habit | Shrub | Fruit Details | Fruit a capsule, long which splits open at maturity to release numerous downy seeds. |
| Habitat | Road side and park | Bark Type | Smooth |
| Distribution | Native to northern, southern Europe, western Asia, the Indian sub-continent | Bark Details | Glaucous bloom, while mature stems have a grayish bark |
| Distribution in Haryana | Ambala, Bhiwani, Faridabad, Fatehabad, Gurgaon, Hisar, Jhajjar, Jind, Kaithal, Karnal, Kurukshetra, M. Garh, Mewat, Morni-Pinjore, Palwal, Panipat, Rewari, Rohtak, Sirsa, Sonepat, Yamuna Nagar | Origin | Native |
| Leaf Type | Simple | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Whorled (leaves in groups of 3 or more along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Lence shaped | ||
| Description of Species | Shrub upto 6 m tall, with erect stems that splay outward as they mature; first-year stems have a glaucous bloom, while mature stems have a grayish bark. Leaves in pairs or whorls of three, thick and leathery, dark-green, narrow lanceolate, with an entire margin. Flowers grow in clusters at the end of each branch; white, pink to red, with a deeply 5-lobed fringed corolla round the central corolla tube. Fruit a capsule, long which splits open at maturity to release numerous downy seeds. | Leaf Details | Leaves in pairs or whorls of three, thick and leathery, dark-green, narrow lanceolate, with an entire margin. |
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