Giant milkweed
ಅರ್ಕவெள்ளெருக்குతెల్లజిల్లేడు
Calotropis procera (Aiton) W.T.Aiton
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 3.0 m
- wide
- 4.0 m
Apocynaceae
Also called Apple of Sodom, Roostertree, Calotropis, Madar, Mudar
Formerly Apocynum syriacum, Asclepias patula, Asclepias procera, Calotropis hamiltonii, and 5 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year 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
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Desert or dry shrublandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Macaronesia, N. & Trop. Africa to Indo-ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 2.9 m to 3.2 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 1.8–2.4 m; Plants for a Future 4–4 m
- Spread
- 4.0 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -12.2 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Algodoncillo gigante, Manzano de Sodoma, Mudar de la India
- Portuguese
- Bombardeira, Algodoeiro-de-seda, Rosa seda
- Hebrew
- פתילת-המדבר הגדולה, תפוח סדום
- French
- Pommier de Sodome
- Finnish
- sodomanmadari
- German
- Judasapfel, Oscher, Fettblattbaum
- Russian
- Калотропис высокий
- Arabic
- عشار باسق
- Chinese (China)
- 白花牛角瓜, 圆果牛角瓜
- Danish
- Sodomas Æbler
- Afrikaans
- Calotropis
- Chinese
- 白花牛角瓜, 圆果牛角瓜, 金玉桃
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 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Calotropis procera (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.