West Indian Elm
കാട്ടുരുദ്രാക്ഷം
Guazuma ulmifolia Lam.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 30 m
- wide
- —
Malvaceae
Also called Bastardcedar
Formerly Bubroma guasuma, Bubroma polybotryum, Bubroma tomentosum, Bubroma ulmifolia, and 10 more
When it flowers
Flowers April to December 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
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to Trop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from World Agroforestry Tree Database, one source
- Height
- 30 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, brownRead from World Agroforestry Tree Database and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
Not known yet: 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.
Apple-of-PeruFlowers January to March, when this does not
Arabian jasmineFlowers January to March, when this does not
Barbados lilyFlowers January to March, when this does not
Billygoat weedFlowers January to March, when this does not
Black-eyed Susan vineFlowers January to March, when this does not
Blue dazeFlowers January to March, when this does not
In other languages (11)
- Spanish
- Guásima, Bellota de cuaulote, Caulote
- root
- acashti, ajiya, ajya
- myn
- pishoy
- Indonesian
- Jati Belanda
- Portuguese
- periquiteira, Chico-magro, Mutamba
- Russian
- Гуазума вязолистная
- French
- bois de l'orme
- Chinese (China)
- 毛可可
- Slovak
- guazuma brestolistá
- Chinese
- 毛可可, 瘤果麻
- Malayalam
- കാട്ടുരുദ്രാക്ഷം
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- World Agroforestry Tree Database, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 2.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Guazuma ulmifolia (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.