Henna
ಗೋರಂಟಿहिनाஅழவனம்
Lawsonia inermis L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.3 m
- wide
- —
Lythraceae
Formerly Alcanna spinosa, Alkanna spinosa, Casearia multiflora, Lawsonia coccinea, 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.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- NE. Trop. Africa, Arabian Pen., S. Pakistan to IndiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Top Tropicals, one source
- Height
- 1.5 m to 3.0 mRead from Top Tropicals, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Top Tropicals, one source
- Flowers
- White, cream, pinkRead from Top Tropicals, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -0.8 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from Top Tropicals and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Top Tropicals -6.7 °C; Wikipedia 5 °C
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Alheña, Reseda
- Portuguese
- Hena
- Czech
- henovník bezbranný
- Japanese
- シコウカ, 指甲花
- Indonesian
- Pacar Kuku
- Chinese (China)
- 散沫花
- Italian
- henné
- Thai
- เทียนกิ่งขาว
- Russian
- Лавсония неколючая
- Arabic
- حناء
- root
- Mvumanyuki, Urrurr, Elm
- Swahili
- Mkokoa Muhina
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
- Top Tropicals, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Lawsonia inermis (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.