Rangoon creeper
मधुमालतीகுவிஸ்க்வாலிஸ் இண்டிகா லின்రంగూన్ మల్లి
Quisqualis indica
Kew's current name: Combretum indicum (L.) DeFilipps
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Combretaceae
Also called Rangoon Creeper, Chinese honeysuckle, Quisqualis
Formerly Kleinia quadricolor, Mekistus sinensis, Quisqualis ebracteata, Quisqualis glabra, and 8 more
When it flowers
Flowers June to February 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
- ClimberKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Tanzania, Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to N. AustraliaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Flowers
- White, red, pinkRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, height, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
Australian Umbrella TreeFlowers March to May, when this does not
Bitter MelonFlowers March to May, when this does not
Busy LizzieFlowers March to May, when this does not
ColeusFlowers March to May, when this does not
Crape jasmineFlowers March to May, when this does not
CrotonFlowers March to May, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Piscuala, Carácter de hombre
- Chinese
- 使君子
- Czech
- dlouhotrubka indická
- Indonesian
- Ceguk, Melati Belanda
- Japanese
- インドシクンシ
- French
- Liane vermifuge
- Hebrew
- אלמון הודי
- Russian
- Комбретум индийский
- Thai
- เล็บมือนาง
- Chinese (China)
- 使君子
- Finnish
- koukkuköynnös, Koukkuköynnös
- German
- Rangunschlinger
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, 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 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Quisqualis indica (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.