#family_Apocynaceae__Apocynaceae__dogbane_family__dogbanefamily  chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs
  supertype:  dicot_family__dicotfamily__magnoliopsid_family  family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
  member of:  order_Gentianales
  member:  genus_Apocynum__Apocynum  perennial herbs with small pink or white flowers
     member:  dogbane  any of several poisonous perennial plants of the genus Apocynum having acrid milky juice and bell-shaped white or pink flowers and a very bitter root
  member:  genus_Acocanthera__Acocanthera__Acokanthera__genus_Acokanthera  small genus of trees and shrubs containing strongly toxic cardiac glycosides; Arabia to Africa
     member:  poison_arrow_plant__winter_sweet__Acocanthera_oblongifolia__Acocanthera_spectabilis  medium-sized shrubby tree of South Africa having thick leathery evergreen leaves and white or pink flowers and globose usually two-seeded purplish black fruits
     member:  bushman's_poison__bushman'spoison__ordeal_tree__Acocanthera_oppositifolia__Acocanthera_venenata  evergreen shrub or tree of South Africa
  member:  genus_Adenium__Adenium  1 species: succulent shrub or tree of tropical Africa and Arabia
     member:  impala_lily__mock_azalia__desert_rose__kudu_lily__Adenium_obesum__Adenium_multiflorum  South African shrub having a swollen succulent stem and bearing showy pink and white flowers after the leaves fall; popular as an ornamental in tropics
  member:  genus_Allamanda  genus of tropical American woody vines
     member:  allamanda  a plant of the genus Allamanda having large showy funnel-shaped flowers in terminal cymes
  member:  genus_Alstonia__Alstonia  genus of evergreen trees or shrubs with white funnel-shaped flowers and milky sap; tropical Africa to southeastern Asia and Polynesia
     member:  dita_bark__dita__devil_tree__deviltree__Alstonia_scholaris  evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes; bark formerly used medicinally
  member:  genus_Amsonia__Amsonia  genus of herbs and subshrubs with milky juice and showy bluish flowers; Europe to Asia Minor to Japan and North America
     member:  blue_star__Amsonia_tabernaemontana  subshrubs of southeastern United States forming slow-growing clumps and having blue flowers in short terminal cymes
  member:  genus_Beaumontia__Beaumontia  small genus of evergreen woody vines; East India and Asia
     member:  Nepal_trumpet_flower__Easter_lily_vine__Beaumontia_grandiflora  evergreen woody twiner with large glossy leaves and showy corymbs of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers
  member:  genus_Carissa  Old World genus of tropical evergreen usually spiny shrubs
     member:  carissa  a shrub of the genus Carissa having fragrant white flowers and plumlike red to purple-black fruits
  member:  genus_Catharanthus__Catharanthus  small genus of erect annual or perennial herbs native to Madagascar; widely naturalized in the tropics; formerly included in genus Vinca
     member:  Madagascar_periwinkle__periwinkle__rose_periwinkle__old_maid__oldmaid__Cape_periwinkle__red_periwinkle__redperiwinkle__cayenne_jasmine__cayennejasmine__Catharanthus_roseus__Vinca_rosea  commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers
  member:  genus_Holarrhena__Holarrhena  genus of deciduous trees and shrubs of tropical Africa and Asia
     member:  ivory_tree__ivorytree__conessi__kurchi__kurchee__Holarrhena_pubescens__Holarrhena_antidysenterica  tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea
  member:  genus_Mandevilla__Mandevilla__Dipladenia__genus_Dipladenia  genus of tropical South American tuberous perennial woody vines with large racemose flowers and milky sap
     member:  white_dipladenia__whitedipladenia__Mandevilla_boliviensis__Dipladenia_boliviensis  shrubby climber having glossy leaves and white funnel-shaped flowers with yellow throats
     member:  Chilean_jasmine__Mandevilla_laxa  woody vine of Argentina grown as an ornamental for its glossy leaves and racemes of large fragrant funnel-shaped creamy-white flowers
  member:  genus_Nerium__Nerium  1 species: oleander
     member:  Nerium_oleander__oleander__rose_bay  an ornamental but poisonous flowering shrub having narrow evergreen leaves and clusters of fragrant white to pink or red flowers: native to East Indies but widely cultivated in warm regions
  member:  genus_Plumeria__Plumeria__Plumiera  deciduous shrubs and trees of tropical America having branches like candelabra and fragrant white or pink flowers
     member:  frangipani__frangipanni  any of various tropical American deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Plumeria having milky sap and showy fragrant funnel-shaped variously colored flowers
  member:  genus_Rauwolfia__genus_Rauvolfia  pantropical genus of somewhat poisonous shrubs and small trees
     member:  rauvolfia__rauwolfia  any shrub or small tree of the genus Rauwolfia having leaves in whorls and cymose flowers; yield substances used medicinally especially as emetics or purgatives or antihypertensives
  member:  genus_Strophanthus  genus of tropical Asiatic and African shrubs and woody vines and small trees
     member:  strophanthus  any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Strophanthus having whorled leaves and showy flowers of various colors in dense and few-flowered corymbose clusters; some have poisonous seeds
  member:  genus_Tabernaemontana__Tabernaemontana  evergreen tropical trees and shrubs with milky sap
     member:  crape_jasmine__crapejasmine__crepe_jasmine__crepejasmine__crepe_gardenia__crepegardenia__pinwheel_flower__East_Indian_rosebay__Adam's_apple__Nero's_crown__coffee_rose__Tabernaemontana_divaricate  tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; northern India to Thailand
  member:  genus_Thevetia__Thevetia  genus of poisonous tropical American evergreen shrubs and trees having entire leaves and large cymose flowers
     member:  yellow_oleander__Thevetia_peruviana__Thevetia_neriifolia  tropical American shrub or small tree having glossy dark green leaves and fragrant saffron yellow to orange or peach- colored flowers; all parts highly poisonous
  member:  genus_Trachelospermum__Trachelospermum  genus of Asiatic woody vines with milky sap in leaves and stems
     member:  star_jasmine__confederate_jasmine__confederatejasmine__Trachelospermum_jasminoides  evergreen Chinese woody climber with shiny dark green leaves and intensely fragrant white flowers
  member:  genus_Vinca__Vinca  periwinkles: low creeping evergreen perennials
     member:  periwinkle  chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers

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