Safed Chainari / White-Berry Bush
Securinega virosa
Also known as Common Bushweed
- Habit
- Shrub
- Found in India
- Uttarakhand, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh & more
- Flowering
- March-December
How to identify Safed Chainari
Identify Safed Chainari 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 habit.
- Confirm leaf margin: Entire (smooth edge).
- Confirm leaf surface: Glabrous (smooth, hairless).
- Confirm flower colour: Green.
- Confirm fruit type: Berry.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: March-December.
- In India, compare location records such as Uttarakhand, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Securinega virosa
- Genus
- Securinega
- Family
- Euphorbiaceae
- Habit
- Shrub
- Habitat
- Dry and moist deciduous forests and wastelands
- Native to
- Paleotropics
- Distribution
- India, Tropical Africa, Himalayas, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Japan, Malaysia, Australia, Polynesia, Nepal
- Found in India
- Uttarakhand, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab
- Flowering & fruiting
- March-December
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf margin
- Entire (smooth edge)recorded
- Leaf surface
- Glabrous (smooth, hairless)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Safed Chainari itself; the rest are typical of the Euphorbiaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- GreenrecordedGreen or greenish
- Fruit type
- BerryrecordedA fleshy fruit with seeds embedded directly in the pulp, no central stone.“Its white berries are edible.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Safed Chainari itself; the rest are typical of the Euphorbiaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- सफेद चैनारी Safed chainari, Dalme, Patala
- Kannada
- belahuli, bilisuli, gudahale
- Malayalam
- perinklavu
- Marathi
- kodarsi
- Tamil
- irubulai, pula, varadbula, vedbula, vellaipula
- Telugu
- mekarayi, sulamunta, tellapuli, tellapurugudu
- Mizo
- Saisiak
About Safed Chainari
White-Berry Bush (Securinega virosa) belongs to the Euphorbiaceae family, where it grows as a shrub. In India it has been recorded in Uttarakhand, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and 1 other states. It grows in dry and moist deciduous forests and wastelands. Flowering and fruiting run from March to December.
Euphorbiaceae
Spurge/Euphorbia family
Safed Chainari belongs to the Euphorbiaceae family.
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