Rubber Ki Bel / Rubber-Vine
Cryptostegia grandiflora
Also known as Purple Allamanda
- Habit
- Liana
- Found in India
- Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Rubber Ki Bel
Identify Rubber Ki Bel by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a liana habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Large purple trumpet flowers, rubber-yielding latex (rubber vine).
- Confirm leaf shape: Broad oval.
- Confirm flower colour: Purple/violet.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Asclepiadaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Rubber Ki Bel.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Cryptostegia grandiflora
- Genus
- Cryptostegia
- Family
- Asclepiadaceae
- Habit
- Liana
- Habitat
- Near water bodies
- Habitat type
- Wetland
- Native to
- Madagascar
- Distribution
- Tropics of the World
- Found in India
- Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, West Bengal
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- Broad ovalrecorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Opposite
Characters marked “recorded” are for Rubber Ki Bel itself; the rest are typical of the Asclepiadaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Purple/violetrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Follicle
Characters marked “recorded” are for Rubber Ki Bel itself; the rest are typical of the Asclepiadaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- Rubber ki bel रबर की बेल
- Tamil
- பாலை Palai
- Kannada
- ಹಂಬುರಬ್ಬರ್ Hambu rubber gida
- Malayalam
- pala, palay
- Marathi
- Vilyati-Vakundi, विलायती वाकुंडी
About Rubber Ki Bel
Rubber-vine (Cryptostegia grandiflora) belongs to the Asclepiadaceae family, where it grows as a woody climber. In India it has been recorded in Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat and 5 other states. It grows in near water bodies. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Asclepiadaceae
Milkweed Family
Rubber Ki Bel belongs to the Asclepiadaceae family.
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