Marvel of Peru
ಸಂಜೆ ಮಲ್ಲಿಗೆगुल अब्बासமந்தாரை
Mirabilis jalapa L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 84 cm
- wide
- 46 cm
Nyctaginaceae
Also called Four o'clock flower, Four o'clock, Beauty-of-the-night, False jalap, Four-o'clock
Formerly Jalapa congesta, Jalapa dichotoma, Jalapa officinalis, Jalapa undulata, and 17 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
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to NicaraguaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 46 cm to 1.2 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 61 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellow, pink, purpleRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- French
- Belle-de-nuit commune, Belle-de-nuit, Merveille du Pérou
- root
- tzujoyó, Tlalquilin, গধূলিগোপাল
- Indonesian
- Bunga Pukul Empat
- Portuguese
- Boas-noites, Bonina, Boa-noite
- Spanish
- Maravilla, Aretito, Don Diego de Noche
- Italian
- Bella di notte, Bella di Notte
- Basque
- Gau-lore
- Finnish
- Mökinihmekukka, Ihmekukka, mökinihmekukka
- Romanian
- Noptiță
- Chinese
- 紫茉莉, 黃花紫茉莉, 紫茉莉根
- Dutch
- Nachtschone
- Japanese
- オシロイバナ, 白粧花
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
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Mirabilis jalapa (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.