Balloon vine
முடக்கறுத்தான்ഉഴിഞ്ഞশিবঝুল
Cardiospermum halicacabum L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 3.0 m
- wide
- —
Sapindaceae
Formerly Cardiospermum acuminatum, Cardiospermum corycodes, Cardiospermum glabrum, Cardiospermum inflatum, and 4 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
- LianaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Tropics & SubtropicsKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 3.0 mRead from Plants For A Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension white; Wikipedia cream, white
- Coldest it survives
- -12.2 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (7)
- Simplified Chinese
- 野苦瓜, 倒地铃, 包袱草
- German
- Ballonpflanze, Ballonrebe, Herzsame
- Finnish
- Rakkoköynnös
- Chinese
- 三角泡, 倒地鈴, 倒地铃
- Tamil
- முடக்கறுத்தான், முடக்கொத்தான்
- Bangla
- শিবঝুল
- Malayalam
- ഉഴിഞ്ഞ
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
- 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: Cardiospermum halicacabum (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.