page_title: Cascabela thevetia
section_title: Uses
hierarchical_section_title: Cascabela thevetia / Uses
caption_attribution_description: English: Yellow Oleander Thevetia peruviana in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
context_page_description: Cascabela thevetia is a poisonous plant native throughout Mexico and in Central America, and cultivated widely as an ornamental. It is a relative of Nerium oleander, giving it a common name yellow oleander, and is also called lucky nut in the West Indies.
context_section_description: Cultivation
  Cascabela thevetia is cultivated as an ornamental plant, and planted as large flowering shrub or small ornamental tree standards in gardens and parks in temperate climates. In frost prone areas it is container plant, in the winter season brought inside a greenhouse or as a house plant. It tolerates most soils and is drought tolerant.
  Biological pest control
  The plant's toxins have tested in experiments for uses in biological pest control.  T. peruviana seed oil was used to make a 'paint' with antifungal, antibacterial and anti-termite properties.
caption: Trunk.
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