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Cadaba fruticosa
Cadaba fruticosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Capparaceae. It is a shrub native to Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka on the Indian Subcontinent.
Its habitat includes the dry parts of the Gangetic plain, down through the Vindhya Range, to Deccan thorn scrub forests in southern India and dry forests of northern Sri Lanka. It is threatened by habitat loss. It is known from to the Gangetic Plain of northern India and Bangladesh, south to Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Telangana. It is found in Rayalaseema, central and eastern parts of Karnataka and south to Tamil Nadu, west to rainshadow regions around Palakkad and Punalur.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cadaba fruticosa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
