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Allamanda cathartica

Tiare Rengarenga

Yellow Allamanda

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Yellow Allamanda, Common Allamanda, Golden Allamanda, Golden Trumpet; German Goldtrompete; French Monette Jaune

TRADITIONAL NAMES: Tiare Rengarenga (RR), Pūpua / Pupua (AT), Puapua (MK), ‘Aramena (AK), Tiale Lenga (TS), Tiare Renga (TW); Other Polynesian - Puataunofo (SAM)

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE n.S.America

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Introduced - Recent, Not naturalised; Land, lowlands

SIGNIFICANCE LIST: Ornamental flowers

KEY FEATURES: Vine-like shrub to 5m. LEAVES simple, whorls 3-5, oval to 15cm, glossy green, tip sharp. FLOWER several in terminal clusters, bell-like tube to 12cm; bright yellow; to 15cmØ; petals single 5, spreading, rounded, or petals double. FRUIT rare, spherical with soft spines.

SIMILAR SPECIES: Purple Allamanda (Allamanda blanchetti) has leaves dull with short stiff hairs (vs. glossy, without hairs on upper surface). Bush Allamanda (Allamanda schottii) has smaller flowers to 7cmØ (vs. to 15cmØ).

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Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea: Present
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
++++	++	++	+++	-	++	-	-	-

Northern Group: Present
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
+	-	-	-	-	-

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Allamanda cathartica Linnaeus
SYNONYMS: Allamanda cathartica 'Hendersonii' [FL single]; Allamanda hendersonii [incl. GW][FL single]; Allamanda cathartica 'Stansill's Double' [FL double]

TAXONOMY: PLANTAE; ANTHOPHYTA (=Angiospermae); MAGNOLIOPSIDA (=Dicotyledones); ASTERIDAE; Gentianales; APOCYNACEAE

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
None Recorded.

References:
p.687 Neal - In Gardens of Hawaii
p.47 Hortus 3rd
p.43 Royal Hort. Soc. Index of Garden Plants
p.73 Tropica
p.4/101 A.C.Smith - Flora Vitiensis Nova
p.88 R Wilder - Flora of Rarotonga
p.394a Whistler - Ethnobotany of the Cook Islands

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM03b, zD03b

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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