Madras Thorn
ಸೀಮೆ ಹುಣಸೆपिथोस्बॉबियम डूलसகொடுக்காய்ப்புளி
Pithecellobium dulce (Roxb.) Benth.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 15 m
- wide
- 15 m
Fabaceae
Also called Monkeypod tree, Blackbead, Sweet inga, Manila tamarind, Camachile
Formerly Acacia obliquifolia, Albizia dulcis, Feuilleea bertolonii, Feuilleea dulcis, and 12 more
When it flowers
Flowers October to February 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
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to Guyana and PeruKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
- Height
- 15 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants For A Future, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia 10–15 m; Plants For A Future 15–15 m
- Spread
- 15 mRead from Plants For A Future, one source
- Flowers
- White, greenRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
Apple-of-PeruFlowers March to September, when this does not
Arabian jasmineFlowers March to September, when this does not
Barbados lilyFlowers March to September, when this does not
Billygoat weedFlowers March to September, when this does not
Black-eyed Susan vineFlowers March to September, when this does not
Blue dazeFlowers March to September, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Guamúchil, Chiminango, Jina
- myn
- chucum blanco
- root
- lala-nempá, liléka, macachuni
- Hawaiian
- `opiuma
- French
- Tamarin d'inde
- Chinese
- 金龜樹, 牛蹄豆, 蛟龙木
- Arabic
- لوز هندي, غاف البحر
- Portuguese
- Mata-fome
- Chinese (China)
- 金龟树, 牛蹄豆
- Thai
- มะขามเทศ
- Russian
- Питецеллобиум сладкий
- Lithuanian
- Saldžioji beždžionpupė
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
- Plants For A Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, 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: Pithecellobium dulce (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.