1. n., A common ornamental shrub (Nerium oleander 🌐 and var. indicum), native from south Europe to Japan. Its flowers may be single or double, white, pink, or red.
2. n., A variety of sugar cane, like lahaina in type of growth and color, but the pith dark-brown and the leaf sheath covered with red-brown hairs.
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Oleander (Nerium oleander and var. indicum), native to the region from Southern Europe to Japan. Common ornamental shrubs in Hawaiʻi. (NEAL 695.)
Oleander (Nerium oleander), a common ornamental in Hawaiʻi that grows to a height of 20 feet. Its flowers, foliage, bark, roots and wood seem to be poisonous to insects, humans, and livestock. The milky sap is used in small amounts as a medicine for skin disease. This species is difficult to distinguish from N. indicum. (NEAL 695.)
Cane similar in appearance to lahaina in type of growth and color. Pith is very dark brown and the leaf sheath is covered with long, red-brown hairs. Cane is hard.
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