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Oleanders have green-ish stems and aren't stick-like.
Oleanders are VERY common in So Cal. (Or they were before huge numbers of them were wiped out via disease.) They are at schools, shopping centers, homes, along freeways. While toxic, relatively few poisonings are reported. MILLIONS of kids have been raised around oleanders with no problems.
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Maybe I am confused. You have a link to a photo album and there are three pictures of milkweed in flower in that album. Is that not the plant to which you are refering? Leaves are darker and lighter green depending on growing conditions.
The stems on the plant in the bottle look more woody like oleander than some species of milkweed.
I think it's probably the Mexican petunia, as TreeZoo said. One clue is that his friend said "the plants practically grow as ground cover". Oleander makes a large bush/tree and in no way acts as a ground cover. Mexican petunia, though, spreads prolifically where it's happy and, although taller than a traditional "ground cover", will certainly cover a lot of ground.
I've had a sprig of it in my yard for 12 years, and I guess it's not happy, because it has hardly spread at all, doesn't flower...a few times I've thought it was dead. My aunt and uncle, though, who live two doors down, have large swaths of it in different places in their yard. They mow around it to keep it in check.
I think it's probably the Mexican petunia, as TreeZoo said. One clue is that his friend said "the plants practically grow as ground cover". Oleander makes a large bush/tree and in no way acts as a ground cover. Mexican petunia, though, spreads prolifically where it's happy and, although taller than a traditional "ground cover", will certainly cover a lot of ground.
It looks to me like the leaves are broader and more lanceolate than the Mexican petunia's, which are more grasslike or lilylike. Also, there are dwarf oleanders -- they're not ground covers but some of them are quite small like the Mexican petunia:
The veining in the leaves show it is not oleander. The leaves look just like Mexican Petunia leaves to me. They are tall and rangy. The guy that found it probably thought it was ground cover because they fall over and spread. They grow all over here in Hawaii and are not considered "choice"
The veining in the leaves show it is not oleander. The leaves look just like Mexican Petunia leaves to me. They are tall and rangy. The guy that found it probably thought it was ground cover because they fall over and spread. They grow all over here in Hawaii and are not considered "choice"
I agree. The veins in the leaves don't match the oleander. I'm not familiar with Mexican Petunia but it sounds legit to me.
It's 100%not oleander, the leaves are wrong and it could never be described as groung cover, more like a ten foot tall hedge!
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