Skunkvine
ഗന്ധപ്രസാരണിগন্ধভাদাল
Paederia foetida L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 4.0 m
- wide
- —
Rubiaceae
Also called Stinkvine
Formerly Apocynum foetidum, Crawfurdia paniculata, Gentiana scandens, Hondbesseion foetidum, and 20 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Climbing perennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- E. Nepal to Japan and MalesiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 4.0 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (5)
- Chinese
- 毛鸡屎藤, 雞矢藤, 毛鸡矢藤
- Simplified Chinese
- 女青, 牛皮冻, 狭叶鸡矢藤
- Japanese
- ヘクソカズラ（屁糞葛）
- Bangla
- গন্ধভাদাল, গন্ধভাদুলি, গাঁদাল পাতা
- Malayalam
- ഗന്ധപ്രസാരണി
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- 3D model: Paederia foetida (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.