Periwinkle is a native plant of Madagascar that is used as a ground cover and summer flower. It contains over 60 alkaloids in its leaves and roots used to treat cancers like leukemia and tumors. Periwinkle is easy to cultivate by sowing seeds in the greenhouse in early spring or directly in the garden with 1 foot spacing in full sun or partial shade for white to rose colored flowers up to 1 foot tall.
Periwinkle is a native plant of Madagascar that is used as a ground cover and summer flower. It contains over 60 alkaloids in its leaves and roots used to treat cancers like leukemia and tumors. Periwinkle is easy to cultivate by sowing seeds in the greenhouse in early spring or directly in the garden with 1 foot spacing in full sun or partial shade for white to rose colored flowers up to 1 foot tall.
Periwinkle is a native plant of Madagascar that is used as a ground cover and summer flower. It contains over 60 alkaloids in its leaves and roots used to treat cancers like leukemia and tumors. Periwinkle is easy to cultivate by sowing seeds in the greenhouse in early spring or directly in the garden with 1 foot spacing in full sun or partial shade for white to rose colored flowers up to 1 foot tall.
Family: Apocynaceae Perennial evergreen vining ground cover. Native to Madagascar, escaped to the tropics of the old and new world; grown as a showy summer flower in temperate zones. The leaves and roots of this plant contain over 60 distinct alkaloids, used to treat infant leukemia, Hodgkins disease and tumors. Cultivation: Easy. Sow in the greenhouse in early spring for flowers in the first year, or sow directly in the garden. Full sun or partial shade. Space plants 1 foot apart. Flowers white to rose to 1 foot.