Some 8 spices of evergreen shrubs and trees, produce a with white latex. Leaves alternate, densely arranged on slender branchlets. Flower petals (corolla) yellow, funnel form, narrow throat; calyx deeply divided, with many basal glands inside; stamens inserted in distal narrow part of corolla tube; filaments very short. Fruit a drupe with a depressed globose shape, 2 seeds per locule.
Thevetia: after Andre Thevet (1502-1592) French monk and traveler in Brazil and Guyana.
Pronunciation:
thev-VET-ee-uh
Family:
Apocynaceae