Terminalia catappaL.

Sea Almond

WFO wfo-0000406800 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Terminalia catappa, photographed by Juan Cruzado Cortés
fig. a Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-04 / obs. 203344071
Terminalia catappa, photographed by Donald Davesne
fig. b Donald Davesne, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200331778
Terminalia catappa, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. c Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198299816
Terminalia catappa, photographed by Donald Davesne
fig. d Donald Davesne, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200008795
Terminalia catappa, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. e Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195009325
Terminalia catappa, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. f Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188735150
Terminalia catappa, photographed by Maria Janeiro
fig. g Maria Janeiro, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197758549

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Flowering n = 415 observations

Peak flowering in Oct, from 415 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 22 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.

  • Buceras catappa (L.) Hitchc.
  • Juglans catappa (L.) Lour.
  • Myrobalanus badamia Poir.
  • Myrobalanus catappa (L.) Kuntze
  • Myrobalanus commersonii Kuntze
  • Myrobalanus rubrigemmis (Tul.) Kuntze
  • Terminalia badamia sensu Tul.
  • Terminalia burmanica King ex Prain
  • Terminalia catappa var. chlorocarpa Hassk.
  • Terminalia catappa var. macrocarpa Hassk.
  • Terminalia catappa var. pubescens Kurz
  • Terminalia catappa var. rhodocarpa Hassk.
  • Terminalia catappa var. subcordata (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) DC.
  • Terminalia intermedia Bertero ex Spreng.
  • Terminalia kydiana Roxb. ex Wall.
  • Terminalia latifolia Blanco
  • Terminalia mauritiana Blanco
  • Terminalia moluccana Lam.
  • Terminalia ovatifolia Noronha
  • Terminalia paraensis Mart.
  • Terminalia rubrigemmis Tul.
  • Terminalia subcordata Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.

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.