Fabaceae

African senna

Senna didymobotrya (Fresen.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby

Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Senna

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African senna (Senna didymobotrya) — FlowerPhoto: Vijay Barve, CC0, from iNaturalist

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Common names

By language (7)

Arabic: كاسيا ديديموبوتريا
arz: كاسيا ديديموبوتريا
Chinese: 长穗决明
English: African senna, Peanut butter cassia, Popcorn senna
Estonian: Mustpea-senna
Japanese: フタホセンナ
Kinyarwanda: Umucyuro

Synonyms

Cassia bracteosa Welw. ex W.Bull
Cassia didymobotrya Fresen.
Cassia nairobensis L.H.Bailey
Cassia nairobiensis L.H.Bailey
Cassia verdickii De Wild.
Chamaesenna didymobotrya (Fresen.) Small

Flowers

In flower: January to February, April to November (from 528 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)

Characteristics

Growth habit: Shrub
Lifespan: Perennial
In the US and Canada: Hawaii: introduced, Lower 48 states: introduced

Photos

FlowerPhoto: Vijay Barve, CC0, from iNaturalist
FlowerPhoto: Benjamin Fredlund, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
FlowerPhoto: Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Grizurgbg assumed, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Denise Rupprecht, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF
Photo: Michelle Cloud-Hughes, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist
Photo: Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: MA.ROSER ROURA VILA, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF
Photo: Berend de Boer, CC0, from iNaturalist
Photo: Yercaud-elango, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Alfredo Ramírez Vega, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF

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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.