Boodahcacarathega / Faux Persil
Cardiospermum canescens
- Habit
- Climber
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Boodahcacarathega
Identify Boodahcacarathega by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a climber habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Grey-hairy leaves, papery balloon fruit.
- Confirm leaf type: Trifoliate (three leaflets).
- Confirm fruit surface: Inflated (balloon-like).
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- Confirm it sits within the Sapindaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Boodahcacarathega.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Cardiospermum canescens
- Genus
- Cardiospermum
- Family
- Sapindaceae
- Habit
- Climber
- Habitat
- Dry deciduous forests, scrub jungle and plains
- Distribution
- Pantropical
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf type
- Trifoliate (three leaflets)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Boodahcacarathega itself; the rest are typical of the Sapindaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Fruit surface
- Inflated (balloon-like)recorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Panicle
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Boodahcacarathega itself; the rest are typical of the Sapindaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Kannada
- dodda bekkina budde balli
- Telugu
- boodahcacarathega, buddakakaratige, chinna buddabusara
About Boodahcacarathega
Faux Persil (Cardiospermum canescens) is a climber in the Sapindaceae family. It grows in dry deciduous forests, scrub jungle and plains. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Sapindaceae
Soapberry/Lychee family
Boodahcacarathega belongs to the Sapindaceae family.
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