Milk-Weed Climber
Wattakaka volubilis
Also known as Green Wax Flower, Sneezing Silk Cotton, Sneeze Wort
- Habit
- Liana
- Found in India
- West Bengal
- Flowering
- March-November
How to identify Milk-Weed Climber
Identify Milk-Weed Climber 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: Fragrant waxy white flowers, silky-haired seed pods.
- Confirm leaf shape: Cordate.
- Confirm flower colour: White.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Umbel.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: March-November.
- In India, compare location records such as West Bengal.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Wattakaka volubilis
- Genus
- Wattakaka
- Family
- Asclepiadaceae
- Habit
- Liana
- Habitat
- Moist deciduous forests and scrub jungles
- Distribution
- Sub-Tropical Asia
- Found in India
- West Bengal
- Flowering & fruiting
- March-November
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- CordaterecordedHeart-shaped, with a notch at the base.“A stout tall climber, branches often pustular, with: Leaves: 3–6 inches long by 2–4 inches broad, rather coriaceous, base rounded or cordate;” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Opposite
Characters marked “recorded” are for Milk-Weed Climber itself; the rest are typical of the Asclepiadaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Whiterecorded
- Flower arrangement
- UmbelrecordedFlower stalks all radiate from a single point, like umbrella ribs.“umbels drooping, very many-flowered, subglobose;” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Follicle
Characters marked “recorded” are for Milk-Weed Climber itself; the rest are typical of the Asclepiadaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Milk-Weed Climber
Milk-Weed Climber (Wattakaka volubilis) is a woody climber in the Asclepiadaceae family. In India it has been recorded in West Bengal. It grows in moist deciduous forests and scrub jungles. Flowering and fruiting run from March to November.
Asclepiadaceae
Milkweed Family
Milk-Weed Climber belongs to the Asclepiadaceae family.
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