Limonia acidissimaL.

Indian woodapple

WFO wfo-1000080432 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Limonia acidissima, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. a T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-03-15 / obs. 116485634
Limonia acidissima, photographed by Haneesh K M
fig. b Haneesh K M, CC0 1.0 / obs. 77382738
Limonia acidissima, photographed by Firos AK
fig. c Firos AK, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 42231257
Limonia acidissima, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. d Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 54308925
Limonia acidissima, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. e Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60832820
Limonia acidissima, photographed by Vijay Barve
fig. f Vijay Barve, CC0 1.0 / obs. 4614573
Limonia acidissima, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. g T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116485682
Limonia acidissima, photographed by santhoshk
fig. h santhoshk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56269999

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Limonia acidissima is native: Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka AssamBangladeshIndiaPakistanSri Lanka Andaman Is.
Native distribution of Limonia acidissima, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Assam ASS
Bangladesh BAN
India IND
Pakistan PAK
Sri Lanka SRL

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 16 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Anisifolium curvispina (Miq.) Kuntze
  • Anisifolium limonia Kuntze
  • Anisifolium spectabile (Miq.) Kuntze
  • Feronia balanghas (K.D.Koenig) Steud.
  • Feronia elephantum Corrêa
  • Feronia limonia (L.) Swingle
  • Hesperethusa acidissima (L.) M.Roem.
  • Hesperethusa ambigua M.Roem.
  • Limonia ambigua DC.
  • Limonia curvispina Miq.
  • Limonia dulcis J.F.Gmel.
  • Limonia elephantum (Corrêa) Panigrahi
  • Limonia engleriana Perkins
  • Limonia pinnatifolia Houtt.
  • Limonia spectabilis Miq.
  • Murraya odorata Blanco

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol LIAC5. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.