Calotropis procera(CTRPR)
Overview Code created in: 2004-06-30
- EPPO Code: CTRPR
- Preferred name: Calotropis procera
- Authority: (Aiton) Aiton
Southern Mediterranean, Western Asia (Yemen to Pakistan), Himalayas, India, Bangladesh, Indochina (except Laos), Sahel to Zaïre, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Introduced in China, USA (Florida, California), Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil to Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina, Australia (except New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania)
WSSA list of weeds in North America
| Name | Language |
|---|---|
| apple of Sodom | English |
| Dead-Sea fruit | English (US) |
| felt plant | English (US) |
| French cotton | English (US) |
| giant milkweed | English |
| mudar plant | English |
| rooster tree | English |
| rubber bush) | English |
| Sodom apple | English |
| Mudarstrauch | German |
| Oscherstrauch | German |
| Sodommapfel | German |
| pommier de Sodome | French |
| algodón de seda | Spanish (PY) |
| bomba | Spanish (CO) |
| calotropo | Italian |
| algodão-da-praia | Portuguese |
| algodão-de-seda | Portuguese (BR) |
| algodão-de-seda | Portuguese |
| algodoeiro-de-seda | Portuguese |
| bago-de-véio | Portuguese |
| bombardeira | Portuguese |
| ciúme | Portuguese |
| ciumeira | Portuguese (BR) |
| flor-de-seda | Portuguese |
| janaúba | Portuguese |
| leiteira | Portuguese |
| maçã-de-sodoma | Portuguese |
| paina-de-sapo | Portuguese |
| paina-de-seda | Portuguese |
| paininha-de-seda | Portuguese |
| pé-de-balão | Portuguese |
| queimadeira | Portuguese |
| rosa-cera | Portuguese |
| saco-de-velho | Portuguese |
| petilat-hammidbar haggedolah | Hebrew |
| פְּתִילַת-הַמִּדְבָּר הַגְּדוֹלָה | Hebrew |
| aak | Hindi |
| madar | Hindi |
| alarka | Sanskrit |
| arka | Sanskrit |
| mandara | Sanskrit |
| sadapushpa | Sanskrit |
| vasuk | Sanskrit |
Kingdom
Plantae (
1PLAK )
Phylum
Magnoliophyta (
1MAGP )
Class
Angiospermae (
1ANGC )
Category
Lamiids (
1LAMD )
Order
Gentianales (
1GENO )
Family
Apocynaceae (
1APOF )
Subfamily
Asclepiadoideae (
1ASCS )
Genus
Calotropis (
1CTRG )
Species
Calotropis procera (
CTRPR )