Haven't seen a white Oleander before. I have a Yellow Oleander but it's a different species (Cascabela thevetia) to the usual Oleanders.

I've never seen yellow either!! Yes only seen pinks and white sold as annuals here. Bougainvillea is the other showy tough one.

Steiconi, I would have thought you'd have them there. They're usually called "Tropical Oleander" as they're a substitute for 'real Oleanders' in the tropics. But they can be weedy. They grow as a large shrub or small tree. The leaves resemble Oleander (Nerium) leaves but the flowers, while still about the same size, are a bit different. However, I've never heard of them being poisonous like Nerium Oleander.

Bougainvilleas? I can certainly vouch for them being tough.

Nice plant. The white oleander is very common here in California, as is the red one. There's also a double peach colored one and a creamy yellow one that is common. The white seems to grow the largest of them all - growing to be small trees up to 20 feet if you let them.

There may be lots of yellow oleanders here, but I don't notice them. I grew up in California, so I think of oleanders as dry and dusty plants, not lovely, lush tropicals.

BTW, my mom was always careful to warn us they're poisonous; my schoolyard was bounded by a hedge of oleander. So dry, dusty, poisonous, AND keeping me from freedom. What an awful plant! :-)

Actually, my mom said they're illegal here (my folks lived here in the 1940s), but either she was wrong, or nobody has told the plants. I've never bothered to find out.

'However, I've never heard of them being poisonous like Nerium Oleander.'

Cascabela thevetia aka Yellow Oleander aka Suicide Tree is poisonous.

Although they're listed as an environmental weed here I've never heard any talk of them being poisonous. However, having just done some searches on the net it appears that the seeds are the most toxic part of the plant. But even the site you link says they're "an unreliable choice" for committing suicide. Even so, you wouldn't recommend it for gardens where you have little children around. There are many common names listed for it here but not Suicide Tree:

Be Still Tree, Bestill Tree, Captain Cook Tree, Cook Tree, Dicky Plant, Foreigner's Tree, Lucky Nut, Mexican Oleander, Still Tree, Yellow Oleander.

In Sri Lanka it was specifically pointed out to me as toxic and referred to as Suicide Tree. So there, at least, its reputation for toxicity is well known. Where are you located, tropicbreeze? Article on toxicity of Yellow Oleander

Oh, Be Still is yellow oleander? Sure, I've seen those. I understand their toxicity is the reason for the common name; take it and "be still."

We have those outside all over, very pretty, but poisonous. They die back in the winter, cut to ground, come back each spring!

there are lots of poisonous plant around.

I'm in the north of Australia. Never seen these sold in nurseries here but often seen growing around the place. I have a few but don't know whether they were deliberately planted before I bought the place or brought in by birds. The names I listed came from a weed list but commonly they called Tropical Oleander or Yellow Oleander locally. This thread was the first where I heard about their toxicity but down south Nerium oleander was commonly talked about as being toxic.

That article is interesting Floral, but it is a study based on attempted suicide rather than accidental ingestion. Curious how if you take it in the evening the chance of death is over 50% lower than if you take it in the morning. I'm not curious enough to check it out for myself though, LOL.

MattK, there are for sure a lot of poisonous garden plants around and a lot of people don't realise it.

None of what I have said should be taken to imply that I believe poisonous plants should not be grown or that they pose any great danger to people going about their normal business. I was merely addressing the statement ' I never heard of them being poisonous like Nerium oleander' in case anyone came away with the impression that Yellow Oleander was harmless.