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Also known as: Yellow oleander, Be-still tree, Lucky nut, Thevetia peruviana, Cerbera thevetia, Thevetia neriifolia, Cascabela peruviana
Cascabela thevetia (L.) Lippold is an accepted plant species in the Kew Plants of the World Online database. It is a shrub or tree native from Mexico to tropical South America and introduced in many tropical and subtropical regions. The species is commonly known as yellow oleander, be-still tree, or lucky nut. Plant tissues contain cardiac glycosides of the cardenolide class and can produce digitalis-like cardiotoxicity. The requested material is a botanical species rather than a single discrete chemical compound; composition may vary by plant part, provenance, and preparation.
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This record represents a toxic plant species and not a purified compound or standardized extract. No common reference size is assigned because botanical material is not a chemically uniform catalog compound. Evidence for toxicity and constituent profiles is dependent on plant part and preparation. Taxonomic treatment differs between authoritative databases: Kew accepts Cascabela thevetia, whereas NCBI Taxonomy maintains Thevetia peruviana as the current name and lists Cascabela thevetia as a heterotypic synonym.
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Kew POWO taxon ID 47927-2; family Apocynaceae; accepted name Cascabela thevetia (L.) Lippold; NCBI Taxonomy ID 52862 is recorded under the alternative name Thevetia peruviana.
Kew treats Cascabela thevetia as the accepted name, while some databases and literature use Thevetia peruviana. Yellow oleander contains cardenolide cardiac glycosides, including thevetin B; published veterinary toxicology data also report peruvoside and neriifolin in plant material. All parts should be treated as toxic research material, and the plant should not be confused with non-toxic botanical products bearing similar common names.
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