Indian almond
ಇಂಗುದಿഇന്ത്യൻ ബദാംमलबार आलमंड
Terminalia catappa L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 13 m
- wide
- 12 m
Combretaceae
Also called Sea Almond, Country Almond, Indian Almond, Tropical almond, Jungli Badam
Formerly Buceras catappa, Juglans catappa, Myrobalanus catappa, Myrobalanus commersonii, and 9 more
When it flowers
Flowers June to December 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.
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
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Comoros, Madagascar, Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to Pacific, N. AustraliaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from UF/IFAS, one source
- Height
- 9.1 m to 17 mRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Spread
- 9.1 m to 15 mRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Flowers
- White, greenRead from UF/IFAS and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- 1.7 °C (USDA zone 10b)Read from UF/IFAS, one source
Not known yet: 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.
Banana passionfruitFlowers January to May, when this does not
Bengal clock vineFlowers January to May, when this does not
Bitter MelonFlowers January to May, when this does not
Bleeding heart vineFlowers January to May, when this does not
Blue Trumpet VineFlowers January to May, when this does not
BougainvilleaFlowers January to May, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Almendro malabar, Almendro de playa, Almendro
- root
- nocuana-huenaa, Talisai, zamann
- Portuguese
- Amendoeira-da-índia, árvore-de-anoz, amendoeira-da-praia
- French
- Badamier, amandier
- Chinese
- 欖仁樹, 欖仁, 雨傘樹
- Japanese
- モモタマナ
- Finnish
- manteliketapani
- German
- Katappenbaum, Meermandelbaum, Seemandelbaum
- Indonesian
- Ketapang
- Czech
- vrcholák pravý
- Chinese (China)
- 榄仁
- Russian
- Терминалия катаппа
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Terminalia catappa (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.