Red mussaenda
മുസ്സാണ്ട എറിത്രോഫില്ല
Mussaenda erythrophylla Schumach. & Thonn.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 5.0 m
- wide
- 5.3 m
Rubiaceae
Also called Red-leaved Mussaenda
Formerly Mussaenda splendida
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
- Scrambling shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Horticopia, Top Tropicals and Desert-Tropicals, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by 2 of 3 sources. Sources differ: Horticopia full, part; Top Tropicals full; Desert-Tropicals full, part
- Height
- 3.8 m to 6.1 mRead from Horticopia and Top Tropicals, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Horticopia 20–30 ft; Top Tropicals 5–10 ft
- Spread
- 4.6 m to 6.1 mRead from Horticopia, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Horticopia, Top Tropicals and Desert-Tropicals, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by all 3 sources
- Flowers
- White, red, pinkRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -3.9 °C (USDA zone 9b)Read from Horticopia, Top Tropicals and Desert-Tropicals, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by 2 of 3 sources. Sources differ: Horticopia -3.9 °C; Top Tropicals -6.7 °C; Desert-Tropicals -3.9 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (9)
- Spanish
- Bandera roja
- Chinese
- 紅葉金花, 紅紙扇, 红纸扇
- Japanese
- ヒゴロモコンロンカ
- Chinese (China)
- 红纸扇
- Finnish
- hurmehuivio
- Russian
- Муссенда красноватолистная
- French
- Mussaenda rouge
- Simplified Chinese
- 红纸扇
- Malayalam
- മുസ്സാണ്ട എറിത്രോഫില്ല
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
- Horticopia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Top Tropicals, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Desert-Tropicals, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Mussaenda erythrophylla (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.