Oleander (kyoochikutoo)

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Oleander (kyoochikutoo)

***** Location: Japan, Yemen
***** Season: Mid-Summer
***** Category: Plant

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Explanation


Oleander, kyoochikutoo 夾竹桃 (きょうちくとう)
キョウチクトウ
kyooshuutoo 叫出冬（きょうしゅつとう）

"half year red", hannenkoo 半年紅（はんねんこう）
"peach leaf red", tooyookoo 桃葉紅（とうようこう）




Oleander (Nerium oleander), is a evergreen shrub or small tree in the dogbane family Apocynaceae. It is the only species currently classified in the genus Nerium. Other names include Adelfa, Alheli Extranjero, Baladre, Espirradeira, Flor de São Jose, Laurel de jardín, Laurel rosa, Laurier rose, Flourier rose, Olean, Aiwa, Rosa Francesca, Rosa Laurel, and Rose-bay, Araliya (in Sinhalese); in Chinese it is known as 夹竹桃 (jia zhu tao). The ancient city of Volubilis in North Africa took its name from the old Latin name for the flower.



It is native to a broad area from Morocco and Portugal eastward through the Mediterranean region and southern Asia to Yunnan in southern parts of China.
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !


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In the Bible, the oleander plant is referred to as "the desert rose".
Historical records show that the Mesopotamians in the 15th century BC believed in the healing properties of oleander. The Babylonians used a mixture of oleander and licorice to treat hangovers. Roman soldiers also regularly took an oleander extract for hangovers. Pliny, the Elder of ancient Greece, wrote about the appearance and properties of oleander. Arab physicians first used oleander as a cancer treatment in the 8th century AD.

Read more:
　©　A Brief History Of The Oleander Plant


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kigo for late summer

oiransoo 花魁草 (おいらんそう) "Geisha Plant"
kusa kyoochikutoo 草夾竹桃（くさきょうちくとう）"plant oleander"
Phlox paniculata


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Worldwide use

Yemen

kigo for winter

Oleander
One of the most striking and widely grown plants is the common oleander or pink oleander. It displays its attractive and delicate flowers clusters on branch and twig tips and we are blessed with its long duration of bloom. Both the single and double flowers have a varied color range: pale and dark pink, salmon, white. The single flowers, pale pink form with its five petal can be seen growing wild in the wadis. It is normally a broad and bulky evergreen shurb, which grows in dense clumps and reaches up to four meter high and wide. Noticeable are the narrow, long dark green leaves with a vein down the center.
©　When Yemen Blooms


Oleander -
night tumbling, white
its fragrance still at the branch

Heike Gewi, Yemen 2008


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Things found on the way


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HAIKU

Red oleander and
hibiscus calling morning
to Kali

　©　R.K.Singh, India


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fragrant morning
a pink oleander gently
rubs her shoulder

- Shared by Satwinder Singh -
The Tea Room, facebook, 2012



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Related words

***** YEMEN SAIJIKI


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