Allamanda Plant Uses. Its beautiful clear yellow flowers attractive glossy green leaves perfect for covering fences in warm climate gardens. It is commonly grown as an ornamental sometimes also as a hedge or a ground cover.
Medicinal In the tropics it is used as a purgative and to induce vomiting in low dosage as a high dosage can be toxic. - Infusion of leaves in moderate doses is an excellent cathartic. Its beautiful clear yellow flowers attractive glossy green leaves perfect for covering fences in warm climate gardens.
Frederich Allamanda an 18th century Swiss botanist.
Also known as Yellow Bell Golden Trumpet or Buttercup Flowers it belongs to the Apocynaceae family. It is native to Brazil. Leaves Golden-trumpet common Allamanda Allamanda Cathartica is used for the antidote to the poison and used as an herbal concoction for diseases or abscesses boils eczema and ringworm. Some dwarf varieties are perfect for baskets or as border plants along a garden path.