Christmas Senna
Senna pendula (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 3.8 m
- wide
- 4.6 m
Fabaceae
Also called Cassia, Easter Cassia, Valamuerto
Formerly Cassia pendula, Chamaefistula pendula
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to Trop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Roger's Gardens, one source
- Height
- 3.3 m to 4.3 mRead from Wikipedia and Roger's Gardens, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 2–4 m; Roger's Gardens 15–15 ft
- Spread
- 4.6 mRead from Roger's Gardens, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia and Roger's Gardens, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from Roger's Gardens, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (7)
- Portuguese
- Canudo-de-pito, Fedegoso, Aleluia
- Japanese
- コバノセンナ
- Spanish
- Pito canuto, Valamuerto
- Chinese (China)
- 垂果决明
- Chinese
- 垂果決明
- Slovak
- senna previsnutá
- French
- Senna de Noël
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 2026-10-25, 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, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Senna pendula (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.