Rain of gold
Galphimia glauca Cav.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 2.4 m
- wide
- —
Malpighiaceae
Formerly Malpighia glauca, Thryallis glauca
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to GuatemalaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 1.8 m to 3.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -2 °C (USDA zone 9b)Read from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (9)
- Spanish
- Arnica de raíz, Festividad, Botón de oro
- root
- leichi, petsjoyó, shanin-tzitziki
- Chinese
- 金英樹, 金英树
- Japanese
- キントラノオ
- Russian
- Гальфимия сизая
- Chinese (China)
- 金英树
- Thai
- พวงทองต้น
- Hebrew
- גלפימיה מכחילה
- Finnish
- sinikultapensas
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, 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-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Galphimia glauca (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.