Tree heliotrope
ऑक्टोपस झाड़ഒക്ടോപസ് ബുഷ്
Heliotropium arboreum (Blanco) Mabb.
- light
- —
- water
- Little
- tall
- 3.6 m
- wide
- 5.0 m
Boraginaceae
Formerly Argusia argentea, Heliotropium foertherianum, Messerschmidia argentea, Tournefortia arborea, and 1 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year 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
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. Somalia to Mozambique and PacificKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 3.6 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 5.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (8)
- Chinese
- 白水木
- Japanese
- モンパノキ
- French
- Faux tabac, Veloutier blanc
- root
- Rirs, Touhuni
- Chinese (China)
- 银毛树
- Chinese (Taiwan)
- 白水木
- Hindi
- ऑक्टोपस झाड़, ओक्टोपस झाड़, वृक्ष सूर्यानुवर्त
- Malayalam
- ഒക്ടോപസ് ബുഷ്
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
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Heliotropium arboreum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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