Scorpionbush
குரங்கு வெற்றிலைകുരങ്ങുവെറ്റില
Ehretia microphylla Lam.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 4.0 m
- wide
- —
Boraginaceae
Formerly Carmona heterophylla, Carmona microphylla, Carmona retusa, Cordia coromandeliana, and 7 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
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- India to Nansei-shotō and Solomon Is.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 4.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (5)
- Finnish
- Karmona
- Chinese
- 基及树
- Chinese (Taiwan)
- 小葉厚殼樹, 滿福木, 福建茶
- Tamil
- குரங்கு வெற்றிலை
- Malayalam
- കുരങ്ങുവെറ്റില
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, CC BY 4.0
- 3D model: Ehretia microphylla (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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