Jojoba
ಹಹೋಬಾहोहोबाജൊജോബ
Simmondsia chinensis (Link) C.K.Schneid.
- light
- —
- water
- Little
- tall
- 1.5 m
- wide
- —
Simmondsiaceae
Formerly Brocchia dichotoma, Buxus californica, Buxus chinensis, Celastrus obtusatus, and 2 more
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.
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
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Desert or dry shrublandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. California to C. Utah and N. MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 99 cm to 2.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, greenRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Hottest it survives
- 46 °CRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, coldest it survives, heat.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Jojoba
- French
- Jojoba
- Estonian
- jojoobipõõsas, simmondsia
- root
- qawnaxal
- Russian
- Симмондсия китайская
- Danish
- jojoba
- Chinese (China)
- 油蜡树
- Finnish
- vuohenpuksio
- Turkish
- Jojoba
- Slovak
- jojoba kalifornská
- Chinese
- 油蜡树
- Hindi
- होहोबा
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Simmondsia chinensis (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.