Someone said the Allamanda is a kampung plant, a village plant that is. In Malaysia, you'll find a lot of the yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers jazzing up the compound of a typical Malay village. But the truth is the Allamanda is not a native plant here; rather it is from Brazil in South America; just that it grows well in its adopted land, thriving in open, sunny areas with adequate rainfall. I love the Allamanda for it can be easily propagated from cuttings, easy to take care of, spread rapidly and most of all, it blooms profusely and perpetually. Never mind if it can be used to treat liver tumors, jaundice, splenomegaly, and malaria; at the moment the plant is one of the several that hide the ugly drain in front of the house.
What other plants can you identify here?
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