Bael fruit of India
ಅಜೆಲ್ ಮರ್ಮೆಲಸ್श्री फलவில்வ மரம்
Aegle marmelos (L.) Corrêa
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 12 m
- wide
- 5.0 m
Rutaceae
Also called Bel fruit, Indian bael
Formerly Belou marmelos, Bilacus marmelos, Crateva marmelos, Feronia pellucida
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Indian SubcontinentKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 12 mRead from Plants for a Future and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Plants for a Future 10–10 m; Wikipedia 13–13 m
- Spread
- 5.0 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, greenRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -7 °C (USDA zone 8b)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Hottest it survives
- 48 °CRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: heat.
In other languages (9)
- Chinese
- 箭杆七, 印度枳, 木橘
- Simplified Chinese
- 孟加拉苹果, 木橘
- Hindi
- श्री फल, बेल फल, बेल
- Tamil
- வில்வ மரம், வில்வம்
- Telugu
- ఎగెల్, బిల్వ, బిల్వపత్రం
- Kannada
- ಅಜೆಲ್ ಮರ್ಮೆಲಸ್, ಬಿಲ್ವಪತ್ರೆ ಮರ
- Marathi
- बेल
- Bangla
- শ্রীফল, বিল্ব, বেল
- Malayalam
- കൂവളം
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Aegle marmelos (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.