Chamber bitter
செங்கீழாநெல்லிചുവന്ന കീഴാർനെല്ലിभुईआवळी
Phyllanthus urinaria L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 61 cm
- wide
- —
Phyllanthaceae
Also called Chamberbitter
Formerly Diasperus urinaria, Emblica urinaria
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
- Annual or subshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to N. AustraliaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 61 cmRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 1–2 ft; Wikipedia 60–60 cm
- Flowers
- White, greenRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension green, white, yellow; Wikipedia green, white
Not known yet: spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (5)
- Chinese
- 珍珠草, 葉下珠, 珠仔草
- Simplified Chinese
- 珍珠草, 假油树, 叶下珠
- Tamil
- செங்கீழாநெல்லி
- Marathi
- भुईआवळी
- Malayalam
- ചുവന്ന കീഴാർനെല്ലി
Where this comes from
- 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
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Phyllanthus urinaria (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.