Monkeysoap
யானைக் காது மரம்कर्णफळ
Enterolobium cyclocarpum (Jacq.) Griseb.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 23 m
- wide
- —
Fabaceae
Formerly Albizia longipes, Feuilleea cyclocarpa, Inga cyclocarpa, Mimosa cyclocarpa, and 3 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to S. Trop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from UF/IFAS, one source
- Height
- 23 mRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from UF/IFAS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: UF/IFAS green, white; Wikipedia white
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (5)
- Chinese
- 榼藤, 象耳豆
- Simplified Chinese
- 红皮象耳豆, 象耳豆
- Indonesian
- sengon buto
- Tamil
- யானைக் காது மரம்
- Marathi
- कर्णफळ
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3D model: Enterolobium cyclocarpum (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.