Banana bush
কাঠ মালতী
Tabernaemontana pandacaqui Poir.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 14 m
- wide
- —
Apocynaceae
Also called Windmill bush
Formerly Alstonia pacifica, Anartia recurva, Benkara pandacaki, Ervatamia angustisepala, and 70 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. China to PacificKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 14 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, creamRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (4)
- Simplified Chinese
- 尖果狗牙花, 台湾狗牙花, 平脉狗牙花
- Tongan
- teʻeteʻemanu
- Chinese
- 南洋馬蹄花, 山馬茶, 平脉狗牙花
- Bangla
- কাঠ মালতী
Where this comes from
- 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, Public domain
- 3D model: Tabernaemontana pandacaqui (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.