Cape leadwort
கருங்கொடி வேலிനീലക്കൊടുവേലിনীল চিতা
Plumbago auriculata Lam.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Little
- tall
- 3.2 m
- wide
- 1.7 m
Plumbaginaceae
Also called Blue plumbago, Cape plumbago, Cape Lead Wort, Leadwort, Plumbago
Formerly Plumbagidium auriculatum, Plumbago alba, Plumbago capensis, Plumbago grandiflora
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
- Scrambling shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mozambique to S. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by 2 of 3 sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension full, part; RHS full; Wikipedia full, part
- Height
- 2.5 m to 4.0 mRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 6–15 ft; RHS 2.5–4 m
- Spread
- 1.4 m to 2.0 mRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension 6–8 ft; RHS 1–1.5 m
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension and RHS, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: NC State Extension low; RHS medium
- Flowers
- Blue, whiteRead from NC State Extension, RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by 2 of 3 sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension blue, pink, white; RHS blue; Wikipedia blue, violet, white
- Coldest it survives
- -2.8 °C (USDA zone 9b)Read from NC State Extension and RHS, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -6.7 °C; RHS 1 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- embeleso, jazmín del cielo, Jazmín azul
- Chinese
- 藍雪花, 蓝花丹
- Catalan
- Gessamí blau
- French
- Dentelaire du Cap
- Portuguese
- Bela-emília
- Czech
- olověnec ouškatý
- Estonian
- kõrv-tinajuur
- German
- Kap-Bleiwurz
- Japanese
- ルリマツリ
- Chinese (China)
- 蓝花丹, 蓝雪花
- Greek
- Μπλε γιασεμί, Κινέζικο Γιασεμί
- Turkish
- Mavi Yasemin
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- 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
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 2.5
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Plumbago auriculata (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.