Periploca laevigata

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Periploca laevigata, photographed by Christian Berg — fig. b Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173762783

Periploca laevigata, photographed by Santiago Martín-Bravo — fig. c Santiago Martín-Bravo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152040397

Periploca laevigata, photographed by Tero Linjama — fig. d Tero Linjama, CC0 1.0 / obs. 102170872

Periploca laevigata, photographed by Daniel Cahen — fig. f Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 14397466

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Native distribution of Periploca laevigata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Canary Is.	CNY	AFRICA
Selvagens	SEL

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 151 in flower of 248 examined

71%

83%

50%

56%

47%

38%

22%

75%

100%

81%

80%

Proportion of examined Periploca laevigata in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	12	17	71%	47% to 87%
Feb	20	24	83%	64% to 93%
Mar	11	22	50%	31% to 69%
Apr	29	52	56%	42% to 68%
May	14	30	47%	30% to 64%
Jun	5	13	38%	18% to 64%
Jul	3	8	38%	14% to 69%
Aug	4	18	22%	9% to 45%
Sep	9	12	75%	47% to 91%
Oct	11	11	100%	74% to 100%
Nov	13	16	81%	57% to 93%
Dec	20	25	80%	61% to 91%

Peak flowering in Oct. Each bar is the share of Periploca laevigata observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 151 of 248 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Apocynum canariense Lam.
Periploca laevigata f. anomalis G.Kunkel
Periploca laevigata f. obovata G.Kunkel
Periploca laevigata f. undulata G.Kunkel
Periploca oleifolia Salisb.
Periploca punicifolia Cav.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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