Mysore trumpetvine
ശരറാന്തൽ പൂവ്বাসর লতা
Thunbergia mysorensis (Wight) T.Anderson
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 6.0 m
- wide
- 2.0 m
Acanthaceae
Formerly Hexacentris mysorensis
When it flowers
Flowers all year 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
- LianaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. IndiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Chicago Botanic Garden and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Chicago Botanic Garden full, part; RHS full
- Height
- 4.0 m to 8.0 mRead from RHS, one source
- Spread
- 1.5 m to 2.5 mRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Chicago Botanic Garden and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- Yellow, redRead from Chicago Botanic Garden and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- 4.5 °C (USDA zone 11a)Read from Chicago Botanic Garden and RHS, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Chicago Botanic Garden -1.1 °C; RHS 10 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- Zapatito de muñeca
- Portuguese
- Sapatinho-de-judia
- Dutch
- Mysore-winde
- Czech
- thunbergie mysorská
- Chinese
- 時鐘藤, 黃花老鴉嘴, 邁索爾鄧伯花
- Chinese (China)
- 黄花老鸦嘴
- Russian
- Тунбергия майсурская
- French
- Liane de Mysore
- German
- Indische Thunbergie
- Finnish
- riippasusanna
- Bangla
- বাসর লতা
- Malayalam
- ശരറാന്തൽ പൂവ്
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
- Chicago Botanic Garden, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Thunbergia mysorensis (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.