About Wild Caper Bush
Capparis sepiaria, also commonly called hedge caper or wild caper bush, is a shrub that has a pantropical distribution, especially in dry deciduous forests, foothills and scrub jungles.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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
- Flowering & fruiting
- March-October
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
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
Botanical family
Capparaceae
Caper Family
Wild Caper Bush belongs to the Capparaceae family.
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