Egyptian star cluster
പെന്റാസ് ലാൻസിയോലാട്ട
Pentas lanceolata (Forssk.) Deflers
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 46 cm
- wide
- 42 cm
Rubiaceae
Also called Egyptian Star-cluster, Ruby Glow, Egyptian starcluster
Formerly Manettia lanceolata, Neurocarpaea lanceolata, Ophiorrhiza lanceolata, Pseudomussaenda lanceolata, and 1 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
- Subshrub or shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Ethiopia to Mozambique, Comoros, Arabian Pen.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 30 cm to 61 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 23 cm to 61 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, red, pinkRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension pink, purple, red, white; Wikipedia pink, red, white
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Estrella egipcia, Penta
- Chinese
- 五星花, 雨傘花, 星形花
- Japanese
- ペンタス, クササンタンカ
- Finnish
- punaviisikki
- Greek
- Πεντάδα
- Danish
- egypterstjerne
- Hebrew
- פנטס אזמלני
- Portuguese
- Estrela-do-Egito
- Polish
- Piętak lancetowaty
- Chinese (China)
- 五星花, 繁星花
- Czech
- Pětkovec kopinatý
- Slovak
- päťcípovka kopijovitá
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, 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, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Pentas lanceolata (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.