Peanut-Butter Cassia
Senna didymobotrya (Fresen.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 4.0 m
- wide
- 2.4 m
Fabaceae
Also called African Wild Cassia, African senna, Popcorn senna, Popcorn cassia, Peanut Butter Cassia
Formerly Cassia bracteosa, Cassia didymobotrya, Cassia verdickii, Chamaesenna didymobotrya
When it flowers
Flowers June to March 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.
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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
- Ethiopia to S. Trop. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Roger's Gardens, one source
- Height
- 4.0 mRead from Wikipedia and Roger's Gardens, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 5–5 m; Roger's Gardens 10–10 ft
- Spread
- 2.4 mRead from Roger's Gardens, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: water, coldest it survives, 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 April to May, when this does not
Arabian jasmineFlowers April to May, when this does not
Barbados gooseberryFlowers April to May, when this does not
Barbados lilyFlowers April to May, when this does not
Billygoat weedFlowers April to May, when this does not
Black-eyed Susan vineFlowers April to May, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Retama africana
- French
- Séné
- Finnish
- terttusenna
- Czech
- sena dvouhroznová
- Japanese
- フタホセンナ
- Arabic
- سنا أفريقي, سينا الفشار
- Chinese (China)
- 长穗决明
- Chinese
- 長穗決明, 长穗决明
- Afrikaans
- Grondboontjiebotterkassia
- root
- munwahuku, Isihlungu samatsheketshe
- Swahili
- utupa
- Russian
- Сенна парнокистевая
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Roger's Gardens, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Senna didymobotrya (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.