Botanical atlas
Indian Oleander
Nerium indicum
This plant is kept in the atlas for identification and safety, not for use. Read the safety notes below before handling it, and keep it away from children, cats, and food.
Nerium indicum has a long history in ornamental and ceremonial planting across South Asia, where its bright, oleander-like blooms decorate temple grounds, courtyards, and roadsides. In some folk traditions, small and carefully measured preparations of the bark or leaves were once used externally or in minute internal doses for skin conditions and as a heart tonic, but this practice was always recognized as extremely dangerous and has largely been abandoned in favor of safer alternatives. Today the plant is valued almost entirely for its beauty, drought tolerance, and toughness in difficult growing conditions, not for any home remedy.
Safety.
Nerium indicum (Indian oleander) is highly toxic in all plant parts due to cardiac glycosides; ingestion can cause fatal heart arrhythmias. Not for internal or home remedy use under any circumstances. Keep away from children, pets, and livestock, and seek emergency medical care immediately if exposure occurs.
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