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Rangoon Creeper

Combretum indicum

हिन्दी: मधुमालती

Rangoon Creeper (Combretum indicum) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj

Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized

Rangoon Creeper (Combretum indicum) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj

Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized

Scientific name
Combretum indicum
Hindi name
मधुमालती
Family
Combretaceae, order Myrtales
Group
Plant

Flowers that change from white to pink to red.

  • Spot it A climbing shrub with long, fragrant tubular flowers.
  • Home Fences, walls and garden edges.
  • Food web Dusk moths, bees and sunbirds sip its nectar.
  • Why it matters Feeds moths at night and bees and sunbirds by day, so pollination continues round the clock.

Read more: Combretum indicum on Wikipedia

Sources and credits

Records and field notes

  • RajasthanDevendra Bhardwaj has 3 verified records of this species on iNaturalist, between 2008 and 2025, in Jaipur.[20]

Sources

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Wikidata (Hindi labels for species) (database). Open data, used for Hindi common names.
  4. 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 Not peer reviewed.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.
  5. 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.

The tag before each record shows the place it was checked for.

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