Nutmeg
ಜಾಯಿಕಾಯಿजायफलজয়ত্রী
Myristica fragrans Houtt.
- light
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- water
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- tall
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- wide
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Myristicaceae
Formerly Aruana silvestris, Myristica amboinensis, Myristica aromatica, Myristica laurella, 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
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Maluku (Banda Is.)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, height, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Indonesian
- Pala
- Italian
- noce moscata
- German
- Muskatnussbaum
- Spanish
- Nuez Moscada, Mirística, Nuez De Banda
- Russian
- Мускатник душистый
- Japanese
- ニクズク
- Sinhala
- සාදික්කා
- Chinese
- 肉荳蔻, 肉豆蔻, 肉豆蔻衣
- Turkish
- besbase, masis, Küçük Hindistan Cevizi
- Danish
- muskat
- Polish
- muszkatołowiec korzenny
- French
- muscadier
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, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Myristica fragrans (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.