Malabar nut
ಆಡು ಸೋಗೆवसाकाஆடாதொடை
Justicia adhatoda L.
- light
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- water
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- tall
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- wide
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Acanthaceae
Formerly Adeloda serrata, Adhatoda arborea, Adhatoda pubescens, Adhatoda vasica, and 4 more
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.
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
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Afghanistan to Indo-ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, height, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Czech
- adatoda léčivá
- Japanese
- アドハトダ
- Sinhala
- ආඩතෝඩා
- Chinese (China)
- 鸭嘴花
- Chinese
- 鴨嘴花, 大驳骨, 鸭嘴花
- Swedish
- malabarnöt
- Thai
- เสนียด
- French
- Carmantine de Ceylan
- Russian
- Юстиция сосудистая
- Finnish
- valkopantterinkita
- Marathi
- अडुळसा
- Slovak
- justícia malabarská
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, 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 2026-10-24, 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: Justicia adhatoda (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.