dogbane family

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dogbane family - chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugsApocynaceae, family Apocynaceaedicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germinationApocynum, genus Apocynum - perennial herbs with small pink or white flowersAcocanthera, Acokanthera, genus Acocanthera, genus Acokanthera - small genus of trees and shrubs containing strongly toxic cardiac glycosides; Arabia to AfricaAdenium, genus Adenium - one species: succulent shrub or tree of tropical Africa and Arabiagenus Allamanda - genus of tropical American woody vinesAlstonia, genus Alstonia - genus of evergreen trees or shrubs with white funnel-shaped flowers and milky sap; tropical Africa to southeastern Asia and PolynesiaAmsonia, genus Amsonia - genus of herbs and subshrubs with milky juice and showy bluish flowers; Europe to Asia Minor to Japan and North AmericaBeaumontia, genus Beaumontia - small genus of evergreen woody vines in the East Indies and Asiagenus Carissa - Old World genus of tropical evergreen usually spiny shrubsCatharanthus, genus Catharanthus - small genus of erect annual or perennial herbs native to Madagascar; widely naturalized in the tropics; formerly included in genus Vincagenus Holarrhena, Holarrhena - genus of deciduous trees and shrubs of tropical Africa and AsiaDipladenia, genus Dipladenia, genus Mandevilla, Mandevilla - genus of tropical South American tuberous perennial woody vines with large racemose flowers and milky sapgenus Nerium, Nerium - one species: oleandergenus Plumeria, Plumeria, Plumiera - deciduous shrubs and trees of tropical America having branches like candelabra and fragrant white or pink flowersgenus Rauvolfia, genus Rauwolfia - pantropical genus of somewhat poisonous shrubs and small treesgenus Strophanthus - genus of tropical Asiatic and African shrubs and woody vines and small treesgenus Tabernaemontana, Tabernaemontana - evergreen tropical trees and shrubs with milky sapgenus Thevetia, Thevetia - genus of poisonous tropical American evergreen shrubs and trees having entire leaves and large cymose flowersgenus Trachelospermum, Trachelospermum - genus of Asiatic woody vines with milky sap in leaves and stemsgenus Vinca, Vinca - periwinkles: low creeping evergreen perennialsGentianales, order Gentianales - an order of dicotyledonous plants having gamopetalous flowers; Gentianaceae; Apocynaceae; Asclepiadaceae; Loganiaceae; Oleaceae; Salvadoraceae