Rosary pea
ಗುಲಗಂಜಿरत्तीகுன்றிவித்து
Abrus precatorius L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- —
- wide
- —
Fabaceae
Also called Jumbie bead, Crab's eye, Crab's eyes, Jequirity, Luckybean Creeper
When it flowers
Flowers February to April and August to November in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Climbing shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. Old World to N. & E. AustraliaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, pink, purpleRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: height, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
Apple-of-PeruFlowers May to July and December to January, when this does not
Barbados lilyFlowers May to July and December to January, when this does not
Billygoat weedFlowers May to July and December to January, when this does not
Blue dazeFlowers May to July and December to January, when this does not
Brazilian bachelor's buttonFlowers May to July and December to January, when this does not
Bush Morning GloryFlowers May to July and December to January, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Coralillo asiático, Peonía
- myn
- oxoak
- Indonesian
- Saga Rambat
- root
- Kulales, mopitipiti, mopiti
- Chinese
- 雞母珠, 相思子, 相思子（相思豆）
- Czech
- soterek obecný
- Japanese
- トウアズキ
- Polish
- Modligroszek różańcowy
- Chinese (China)
- 相思子
- Kannada
- ಗುಲಗಂಜಿ, ಗುಲಗುಂಜಿ
- Russian
- Чёточник молитвенный
- Portuguese
- Ervilha-de-rosário, Olho-de-cabra, Olho-de-pombo
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.