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A plant of the genus Allamanda having large showy funnel-shaped flowers in terminal cymes
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Allamanda is a genus of flowering plants in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae . They are native to the Americas, where they are distributed from Mexico to Argentina . Some species are familiar as ornamental plants cultivated for their large, colorful flowers. ...
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n. a plant of the genus Allamanda having large showy funnel-shaped flowers in terminal cymes
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Vivid orchids and wonderful colored lichens smoldered upon the swarthy tree-trunks and where a wandering shaft of light fell full upon the golden allamanda, the scarlet star-clusters of the tacsonia, or the rich deep blue of ipomaea, the effect was as a dream of fairyland.
But for anyone walking through streets lined with poinciana, allamanda, frangipani, and coconut palms, or along the most picturesque of waterfronts with its turtle tanks, pelicans, cormorants, and twenty-thousand-dollar boats, death would have seemed a very distant prospect.