Blossoming of the Allamanda flower welcomes the monsoon season. The flower is found in plenty during the season as it emerges from hundreds of buds waiting to bloom. The beauty of the flower is its large petals mostly appearing yellow in color. Allamandas naturally grows throughout the tropical regions like Bangladesh where it grows in abundance in the hot and humid climate, growing in roadside ditches, abandoned yards, and even in junkyards.
Allamanda is a genus of flowering plants in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae. They are native to the Americas. Plants of the genus are evergreen trees, shrubs, or vines. They contain a white latex. The leaves are opposite or arranged in whorls of up to 5. The blades are generally oval and smooth-edged, and some are leathery or lightly hairy. The inflorescence is a compound cyme. The flower has five lobed sepals and a bell- or funnel-shaped corolla of five petals, yellow in most species. The fruit is a schizocarp containing two to four seeds.
Allamanda can survive outdoors year-round and it needs a lot of sun to develop well. Allamanda is an easy plant to grow when it is cultivated in the proper environment. It is a plant that abhors shade, and needs as much sun as it can get to bloom. The flowering plant cherishes moisture, and needs to be watered in case of heat waves.
