{"product_id":"a1e1_nerium-botanical-water-bottle-egypt-native","title":"A1E1_Nerium Botanical Water Bottle | Egypt Native","description":"\u003ch2\u003eFlower Details\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCommon name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Nerium\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCountry of origin:\u003c\/strong\u003e Egypt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRegion:\u003c\/strong\u003e Africa\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eBottle Specifications\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHigh-grade stainless steel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e17 oz (500 ml)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 10.5″ × 2.85″ (27 × 7 cm)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVacuum flask\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDouble-wall construction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBowling pin shape\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlossy finish\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOdorless and leak-proof cap\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKeeps liquids hot or cold for 6 hours\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHand-wash only\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Nerium\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCommon name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oleander (also known as rose laurel, be-still tree, or rosebay)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScientific name:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eNerium oleander\u003c\/em\u003e L.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNative country\/region:\u003c\/strong\u003e No precise region of origin has been identified; oleander is most commonly associated with the Mediterranean Basin and is widely cultivated across temperate and subtropical regions worldwide, including Egypt and North Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlant height:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2–6 metres (7–20 feet) tall\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFlower colour:\u003c\/strong\u003e White, pink, or red five-lobed flowers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFlowering season:\u003c\/strong\u003e Year-round, peaking during summer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat It's Known For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBotanical singularity:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eNerium oleander\u003c\/em\u003e is the only species currently classified in the genus \u003cem\u003eNerium\u003c\/em\u003e, making it botanically unique within its tribe.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAncient name:\u003c\/strong\u003e The genus name \u003cem\u003eNerium\u003c\/em\u003e derives from the Ancient Greek \u003cem\u003enẽrion\u003c\/em\u003e (νήριον), itself rooted in the Greek word for water (\u003cem\u003enẽros\u003c\/em\u003e), reflecting the plant's natural habitat along rivers and streams.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eExceptional hardiness:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oleander tolerates both drought and flooding, making it one of the most adaptable ornamental shrubs in cultivation — though it cannot withstand prolonged frost.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eYear-round bloom:\u003c\/strong\u003e Unlike most flowering shrubs, oleander produces flowers continuously throughout the year, with blooms peaking in summer.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOrnamental global reach:\u003c\/strong\u003e So widely cultivated across temperate and subtropical regions that no single place of origin can be confirmed — it has effectively become a plant of the world.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSignificant toxicity:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oleander is a poisonous plant, containing compounds that can cause serious symptoms upon ingestion. Its bitterness, however, renders it largely unpalatable to humans and most animals, meaning poisoning cases remain rare.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTaxonomic heritage:\u003c\/strong\u003e Named and formally classified by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in 1753, giving it one of the longer-standing scientific names in botanical history.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContested etymology:\u003c\/strong\u003e The species name \u003cem\u003eoleander\u003c\/em\u003e appears in written records as far back as the first century AD, cited by the Greek physician Pedanius Dioscorides — suggesting a documented human relationship with this plant spanning two millennia.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRelated to arrow poisons:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oleander belongs to the dogbane family Apocynaceae, closely related to genera such as \u003cem\u003eAdenium\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eStrophanthus\u003c\/em\u003e, both of which contain potent cardiac glycosides historically used as arrow poisons in Africa.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Story\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Nile does not hurry. It moves through Egypt the way memory does — wide, unhurried, carrying everything it has touched along the way. On its banks, and along the wadis and stream edges that thread through the drier country beyond, a shrub has grown for longer than anyone thought to record it. Clusters of flowers — white, blush, deep rose-red — open and keep opening, season after season, in a cycle that never fully stops. Before it had a Latin name, before Linnaeus sat down in 1753 and fixed it to a page, this plant was simply there: rooted at the water's edge, flowering without permission.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is the paradox oleander has always carried. It is beautiful and it is dangerous, and it has never hidden either quality. The Greek physician Pedanius Dioscorides wrote about it in the first century AD, recording the names the Romans had already given it — a reminder that this plant moved through the ancient Mediterranean world as freely as trade routes and armies did. The genus name the Greeks used, \u003cem\u003enẽrion\u003c\/em\u003e, came straight from their word for water: \u003cem\u003enẽros\u003c\/em\u003e. They knew where to find it. They knew what it meant to see it growing: you were near a river, a stream, somewhere life was possible in an otherwise dry landscape. In Egypt, that meant everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOleander's relationship with water is written into its very name, but the plant itself is anything but fragile. It tolerates drought when the water pulls back. It tolerates flooding when the Nile rises. It endures conditions that defeat more delicate things, and it does this while flowering — continuously, insistently, year-round. That combination of resilience and beauty is not incidental. It is the plant's defining character, and it is why oleander has spread across every temperate and subtropical region of the world without losing the quality that made people stop and look in the first place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is something worth sitting with in oleander's toxicity. It is poisonous — genuinely so — and yet it has been planted in gardens, along roadsides, and beside civic buildings on every inhabited continent. People have always understood that beautiful things can carry a warning, and still chosen to live alongside them. Oleander does not ask to be made safe. It asks to be understood. That honesty — the refusal to pretend to be something simpler than it is — is, in its own way, a kind of integrity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo carry oleander's story is to carry something that has been part of the human world for at least two thousand years of recorded history, and almost certainly far longer than that. It is a plant that names itself after water, that blooms beside rivers, that survives whatever the season brings, and that has never once been ordinary. That is why Hibiscus chose this story to travel with you — because the things worth carrying are rarely uncomplicated, and the most enduring ones bloom regardless.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat It Stands For\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOleander stands for resilience at the water's edge — the capacity to be both beautiful and uncompromising, and to keep flowering through every season regardless.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Perfect Gift\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the person in your life who loves the natural world — who has a soft spot for flowers, feels most at home outdoors, or simply appreciates a beautiful thing that means something real.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive it for a birthday, a milestone, or any day that deserves a gift she'll actually use. Whether it goes on the trail, to the desk, or on the kitchen bench — it'll be reached for every single day. And every time she does, she carries a story from somewhere real, something that has lasted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot just a bottle. The whole story. She just gets to drink from it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e","brand":"Hibiscus Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54067194003799,"sku":"HB-A1E1F07-S13","price":34.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1031\/7555\/3367\/files\/bottle_front_V02_01.13_810cadcc-eb58-4f3e-9928-c9197b80141f.png?v=1784473953","url":"https:\/\/hibiscusstudio.co\/products\/a1e1_nerium-botanical-water-bottle-egypt-native","provider":"Hibiscus","version":"1.0","type":"link"}