Hiun / Wild Caper Bush
Capparis sepiaria
- Habit
- Climbing shrub
- Found in India
- Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Telangana & more
- Flowering
- March-October
How to identify Hiun
Identify Hiun by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a climbing shrub habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Common hedge/fence shrub.
- Confirm leaf shape: Simple oval/round, small.
- Confirm flower colour: White.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: March-October.
- In India, compare location records such as Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Telangana, Gujarat and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Capparaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Hiun.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Capparis sepiaria
- Genus
- Capparis
- Family
- Capparaceae
- Habit
- Climbing shrub
- Habitat
- Scrub jungle and hilly areas of dry deciduous forests, also in tidal forests in Chilka
- Distribution
- Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Hainan, Malesia, Indo-China and Australia
- Found in India
- Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Telangana, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Karnataka, West Bengal, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Odisha, Uttarakhand
- Flowering & fruiting
- March-October
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- Simple oval/round, smallrecorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Hiun itself; the rest are typical of the Capparaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Whiterecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Raceme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Hiun itself; the rest are typical of the Capparaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- हीयुन hiun, कंथारी kanthari
- Nepali
- जुँगे लहरो junge laharo
- Bengali
- কালিয়াকাড়া kaliyakara, কাঁটা গুড়কামাই kanta gurkamai, কেলেকোঁড়া kelekora
- Tamil
- சூரை curai, கருஞ்சுரை karu-n-curai, காட்டுக்கத்தரி kattu-k-kattari
- Kannada
- ಕಾಡು ಕತ್ತರಿ kaadu kathari, ಕತ್ತಿರಿ ಗಿಡ kattiri gida, ಒಳ್ಳೆ ಉಪ್ಪಿ ಗಿಡ olle uppi gida
- Malayalam
- കാക്കത്തൊണ്ടി kaakkaaththonti, കാക്കത്തൊണ്ടി
- Marathi
- कंथार kanthar, मांसतोडी maastodi
About Hiun
Wild Caper Bush (Capparis sepiaria) belongs to the Capparaceae family, where it grows as a climbing shrub. In India it has been recorded in Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Telangana and 14 other states. It grows in scrub jungle and hilly areas of dry deciduous forests, also in tidal forests in Chilka. Flowering and fruiting run from March to October.
Capparaceae
Caper Family
Hiun belongs to the Capparaceae family.
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