Plant

Kadamba

Neolamarckia cadamba

हिन्दी: कदम, कदम्ब

Kadamba (Neolamarckia cadamba) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj — Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Malpura, Rajasthan · Resized

Scientific name: Neolamarckia cadamba
Hindi name: कदम, कदम्ब
Family: Rubiaceae, order Gentianales
Group: Plant

Orange pom-pom flowers on a tree of poetry and legend.

Spot it Orange ball-shaped flowers and large glossy leaves.
Home Moist forests and avenues.
Food web Bees and flies visit the flowers; birds and bats eat the fruit.
Why it matters Grows fast to restore tree cover, and its fruit feeds birds and bats who spread the seeds.

Read more: Neolamarckia cadamba on Wikipedia

Sources and credits

Records and field notes

RajasthanDevendra Bhardwaj has 1 verified record of this species on iNaturalist in 2009, in Malpura.^[20]

Sources

Devendra Bhardwaj. iNaturalist observations and notes, with place and date (inaturalist.org/people/devendrabhardwaj) (field record). The observer's own dated records and notes, with places. Statements in his notes are his own and were not independently checked by KJVF.
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and GBIF species data (family, order, Hindi names, IUCN category) (database). Open biodiversity data. Used for classification, Hindi common names and the IUCN category where one is given.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (opening lines of each species article, CC BY-SA 4.0). The link on each entry goes to the article (reference). Not peer reviewed. Only the opening description is used, and statements about origin or medicinal use are left out.
Short introductions and key points written with AI help (Google Gemini and Claude) and checked against GBIF where possible (reference). AI-assisted text for general readers. Please check important details before relying on them.

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