Naupaka
വെള്ളമോദകം
Scaevola taccada (Gaertn.) Roxb.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 2.0 m
- wide
- 1.4 m
Goodeniaceae
Also called Beach naupaka
Formerly Lobelia frutescens, Lobelia koenigii, Lobelia piliplena, Lobelia sericea, and 17 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
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. Somalia to E. Tanzania, KwaZulu-Natal, Indian Ocean to PacificKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from UF/IFAS Extension, one source
- Height
- 91 cm to 3.0 mRead from UF/IFAS Extension, one source
- Spread
- 91 cm to 1.8 mRead from UF/IFAS Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from UF/IFAS Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, violetRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from UF/IFAS Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (4)
- Chinese
- 山萝卜, 水草, 草海桐
- Hawaiian
- Naupaka, Aupaka, Huahekili
- Simplified Chinese
- 草海桐
- Malayalam
- വെള്ളമോദകം
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- UF/IFAS Extension, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- 3D model: Scaevola taccada (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.