Velvetleaf
அபுதிலோன் தியோஃப்ராசுடி
Abutilon theophrasti Medik.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 1.7 m
- wide
- —
Malvaceae
Also called Velvet-Leaf, Butter print, Butterprint, China jute, Indianmallow
Formerly Abutilon behrianum, Abutilon commune, Abutilon tiliifolium, Malva abutilon, and 3 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. Asia to ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 91 cm to 2.4 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- ABUTHE
- Portuguese
- folhas-de-veludo
- Hebrew
- אבוטילון תיאופרסטוס
- French
- Abutilon d'Avicenne, Abutilon de Théophraste, Abutilon à fleurs jaunes
- Chinese
- 莔麻, 苘麻, 苘麻子
- Czech
- mračňák Theophrastův
- Dutch
- Fluweelblad, fluweelblad
- Korean
- 어저귀
- German
- Samtpappel, Lindenblättrige Schönmalve, Chinesischer Hanf
- Spanish
- Hoja de terciopelo asiática
- Norwegian Bokmål
- linderose
- Finnish
- kelta-aulio
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
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Abutilon theophrasti (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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.