Pomegranate Honey Suckle
Scurrula parasitica
- Habit
- Shrub (Parasitic)
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Maharashtra, Punjab & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Pomegranate Honey Suckle
Identify Pomegranate Honey Suckle by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a shrub (parasitic) habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Commonly parasitizes pomegranate trees.
- Confirm leaf type: Normal leafy shrub.
- Confirm leaf surface: Pubescent (softly hairy).
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Karnataka, Maharashtra, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Loranthaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Pomegranate Honey Suckle.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Scurrula parasitica
- Genus
- Scurrula
- Family
- Loranthaceae
- Habit
- Shrub (Parasitic)
- Habitat
- Moist and dry deciduous forests, also in the plains
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Distribution
- South and SE.Asia
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Maharashtra, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Uttarakhand
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf type
- Normal leafy shrubrecorded
- Leaf surface
- Pubescent (softly hairy)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Opposite
Characters marked “recorded” are for Pomegranate Honey Suckle itself; the rest are typical of the Loranthaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Spike
- Fruit
- Berry
Typical of the Loranthaceae family — flowering plants only; individual species can differ.
Local Names
- Malayalam
- ചെറു ഇത്തിൾക്കണ്ണി
About Pomegranate Honey Suckle
Pomegranate Honey suckle (Scurrula parasitica) belongs to the Loranthaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Punjab and 4 other states. It grows in moist and dry deciduous forests, also in the plains. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Loranthaceae
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Pomegranate Honey Suckle belongs to the Loranthaceae family.
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