It is commonly grown as an ornamental, sometimes also as a hedge or a ground cover. The plant is occasionally used medicinally, even though it is poisonous. The specific epithet cathartica means cathartic, cleansing, purging which refers to its medicinal purpose in inducing vomiting. The genus name Allamanda is given after Swiss botanist Dr. Some of the well-known common names of the plants are allamanda, brownbud allamanda, buttercup flower, common trumpet vine, cup of gold, golden allamanda, golden cup, golden trumpet, golden trumpet flower, golden trumpet vine, golden-trumpet, Guinea herb, yellow allamanda, yellow bell, yellow trumpet vine, angel’s trumpet, buttercup vine, Common Allamanda, Akar Cempaka Hutan, Bunga Akar Kuning, Akar Chempaka Kuning and Allamada Trumpet Vine. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius. Outside its native range, it is widely naturalized and cultivated as an ornamental in warm, tropical and subtropical climates around the world, including Australia, Africa, China, Central America, West Indies, and numerous islands in the Pacific Ocean. The plant is native to South America including Brazil, French Guyana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Allamanda cathartica, commonly called golden trumpet, common trumpetvine, and yellow allamanda, is a species of flowering plant of the genus Allamanda in the Apocynaceae (Dogbane family).
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