Morinda citrifoliaL.

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WFO wfo-0000245941 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Morinda citrifolia, photographed by Rick_Larimore
fig. a Rick_Larimore, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 205633729
Morinda citrifolia, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. b Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198996188
Morinda citrifolia, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. c Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197589066
Morinda citrifolia, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. d Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197973970
Morinda citrifolia, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. e Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197976454
Morinda citrifolia, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. f Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197987085
Morinda citrifolia, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. g Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195009273
Morinda citrifolia, photographed by Maria Janeiro
fig. h Maria Janeiro, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194719752

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Flowering n = 443 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 443 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 17 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.

  • Morinda citrifolia f. potteri (O.Deg.) H.St.John
  • Morinda citrifolia var. bracteata F.M.Bailey
  • Morinda citrifolia var. potteri O.Deg.
  • Morinda ligulata Blanco
  • Morinda littoralis Blanco
  • Morinda macrophylla Desf.
  • Morinda mudia Buch.-Ham.
  • Morinda multiflora Roxb.
  • Morinda nodosa Buch.-Ham.
  • Morinda quadrangularis G.Don
  • Morinda teysmanniana Miq.
  • Morinda tinctoria Noronha
  • Morinda tinctoria var. multiflora (Roxb.) Hook.f.
  • Morinda zollingeriana Miq.
  • Platanocephalus orientalis Crantz
  • Samama citrifolia (L.) Kuntze
  • Sarcocephalus leichhardtii F.Muell.

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.

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