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Updated 9/10/2023

Family Asclepiadaceae

Milkweed Family

Sometimes included in Family Apocynaceae.  Most have poisonous milky sap.

HAWAII - NATURALIZED

Calotropis gigantea 

CROWN FLOWER

 		 Calotropis procera 

SMALL CROWN FLOWER

 

Stapelia gigantea

CARRION FLOWER

 

 Asclepias physocarpa

BALLOON PLANT

 
Asclepias curassavica

BUTTERFLY WEED

 
   

HAWAII - CULTIVATED

Marsdenia floribunda

STEPHANOTIS