Benghal dayflower
कनकउआகானான்வாழைകാനവാഴ
Commelina benghalensis L.
- light
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- water
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- tall
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- wide
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Commelinaceae
Also called Day Flower, Jio, Tropical spiderwort, Wandering jew
Formerly Commelina canescens, Commelina cavaleriei, Commelina cucullata, Commelina delicatula, and 13 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
- Trop. & Subtrop. Old WorldKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Flowers
- BlueRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, height, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (7)
- Chinese
- 饭包草, 火柴头, 竹叶菜
- Simplified Chinese
- 火柴头, 竹叶菜, 饭包草
- Bangla
- চিত্রপত্রী, কানশিরে, কানাইবাঁশি
- Hindi
- कनकउआ
- Tamil
- கானான்வாழை, கனவாழை
- Marathi
- केना
- Malayalam
- കാനവാഴ
Where this comes from
- 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 2026-10-25, Public domain
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