Iboza
Tetradenia riparia (Hochst.) Codd
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 2.0 m
- wide
- —
Lamiaceae
Also called Ginger-bush, Ginger Bush, Ginger Iboza, Gingerbush, Large Gingerbush
Formerly Basilicum myriostachyum, Basilicum riparium, Gumira ferruginea, Iboza riparia, and 4 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
- Semisucculent shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. Trop. & S. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 2.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, pink, purpleRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (8)
- Chinese
- 麝香木, 臭白花
- Japanese
- フブキバナ
- Afrikaans
- Gemmerbos, gemmeriboza, vleisalie
- root
- Mwaraka, Mwache, bosso
- Portuguese
- Falsa-mirra, Pluma-de-névoa, Pau-de-incenso
- Finnish
- myskiyrtti, Myskiyrtti
- French
- Faux patchouli
- Slovak
- tetradénia pobrežná
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
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Tetradenia riparia (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.