Pigeonpea
ತೊಗರಿ ಕಾಳುअरहर की दालதுவரம் பருப்பு
Cajanus cajan (L.) Huth
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 4.0 m
- wide
- 4.0 m
Fabaceae
Formerly Cajanum thora, Cajanus bicolor, Cajanus luteus, Cajanus obcordifolia, and 6 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
- Perennial or shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry 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
- 4.0 mRead from Plants For A Future, one source
- Spread
- 4.0 mRead from Plants For A Future, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
Not known yet: flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (11)
- Slovenian
- golobji grah
- Simplified Chinese
- 山豆根, 三叶豆, 扭豆
- Chinese
- 木豆, 木豆叶, 木豆根
- Guarani
- kumanda yvyra'i
- Hindi
- अरहर की दाल, तुअर दाल, अरहर
- Tamil
- துவரம் பருப்பு, துவரை
- Telugu
- క౦ది పప్పు, ఎర్ర కంది పప్పు, కజానస్ కజాన్
- Kannada
- ತೊಗರಿ ಕಾಳು
- Marathi
- तुरी, तूर
- Bangla
- অড়হর ডাল, অড়হর
- Malayalam
- തുവര
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, Public domain
- 3D model: Cajanus cajan (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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