Christmas Bush
Senna bicapsularis (L.) Roxb.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 3.0 m
- wide
- 2.7 m
Fabaceae
Also called Christmasbush, Money Bush, Rambling Senna, Yellow Candlebush
Formerly Adipera bicapsularis, Cassia bicapsularis, Cathartocarpus bicapsularis, Diallobus bicapsularis
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
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from UF/IFAS, one source
- Height
- 2.4 m to 3.7 mRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Spread
- 2.4 m to 3.0 mRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from UF/IFAS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from UF/IFAS, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (2)
- Chinese
- 双荚决明
- Simplified Chinese
- 双荚决明
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- UF/IFAS, 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: Senna bicapsularis (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.