Kaner, Nerium Oleander Red, Single Plant

Plant Description

It is most commonly known as Nerium or oleander, from its superficial resemblance to the unrelated olive Olea.

Nerium is evergreen shrub that grows upto the height of 4 m and bearing leaves all the year around. Nerium indicum is distributed all over the Philippines, India and Nepal found on the ranges of 6500 feet. It is commonly cultivated for its sweet smelling flowers which have medicinal uses.

Kaner uses

Ornamental Use:

• Used as an ornamental plant in landscapes, in parks, and along roadsides

Medicinal Use:

• Nerium has various medicinal uses and the leaves and flowers are thought to have actions as tonic, cardio tonic, diaphoretic, diuretic, emetic and expectorant
• Leaves and flowers are also used to treat malaria and as traditional medicine it induces the termination of embryo
• The tincture or decoction is been used externally to reduce swelling and scabies
• The root powder is an external remedy for hemorrhoids and ulcers around genitals
• Leaves and bark is treated as insecticide, rat poison and parasitic
• The plant of Indian oleander is thought to possess anti-cancerous activities