Peanut
ಕಡಲೇಕಾಯಿ ಬೀಜमूंगफलीகடலை
Arachis hypogaea L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 34 cm
- wide
- 34 cm
Fabaceae
Formerly Arachidna hypogaea, Arachis americana, Arachis asiatica, Arachis guaraniana, and 2 more
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
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- As a cultigen from BoliviaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 23 cm to 46 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 23 cm to 46 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 長生果, 花生, 落花生
- Simplified Chinese
- 地豆, 番豆, 落花生
- Asturian
- cacagüés, cacagüesa
- dag
- sima
- Polish
- orzech arachidowy, orzech ziemny, orzacha podziemna
- Slovenian
- zemeljski orešek
- Finnish
- satomaapähkinä
- Hindi
- मूंगफली, मूँगफली
- Tamil
- கடலை, கச்சான், வேர்க்கடலை
- Telugu
- వేరుశనగ
- Kannada
- ಕಡಲೇಕಾಯಿ ಬೀಜ, ಕಡ್ಲೆಕಾಯಿ, ಶೇಂಗಾ
- Marathi
- शेंगदाणा, भुइमूग, भुईमुग
Where this comes from
- 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 4.0
- 3D model: Arachis hypogaea (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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