Simmondsiaceae
Jojoba
Simmondsia chinensis
- Family
- Simmondsiaceae
- Genus
- Simmondsia
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Common names
By language (35)
- Arabic
- هوهوبا, بندق ماعز, جوجوبا
- arz
- هوهوبا
- Azerbaijani
- Çin simmondsiyası
- Bosnian
- Simmondsia
- Bulgarian
- Жожоба
- Catalan
- Jojoba
- Chinese
- 西蒙德木, 油蜡树, 可可巴油, 藿藿巴, 霍霍巴
- Croatian
- Simondsija
- Danish
- Jojoba
- Dutch
- Jojoba
- English
- Jojoba
- Esperanto
- Jojobo
- Estonian
- Jojoobipõõsas
- Finnish
- Vuohenpuksio, Jojoba
- French
- Jojoba
- Galician
- Xoxoba
- German
- Jojoba
- Hebrew
- חוחובה
- Hindi
- होहोबा
- Hungarian
- Jojoba
- Indonesian
- Jojoba
- Japanese
- ホホバ
- Kannada
- ಹಹೋಬಾ
- Korean
- 호호바
- Lithuanian
- Kininė simondsija
- Malayalam
- ജൊജോബ
- Persian
- جوجوبا
- Polish
- Simondsja kalifornijska
- Portuguese
- Jojoba
- Romanian
- Jojoba
- Russian
- Жожоба
- Spanish
- Jojoba
- Swedish
- Jojoba
- Turkish
- Jojoba
- Ukrainian
- Жожоба
Synonyms
- Brocchia dichotoma Mauri
- Buxus californica Hort ex Baill.
- Buxus chinensis Link
- Celastrus obtusatus C.Presl
- Simmondsia californica Nutt.
- Simmondsia pabulosa Kellogg
Flowers
- In flower
- February to April (from 500 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
- Flower colour
- yellow (USDA PLANTS Database)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Joseph Rojas, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: joergmlpts, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Kate Harper, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: brewbooks from near Seattle, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Jill DeVito, PhD, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: brewbooks from near Seattle, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Justin, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Irene, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Kate Manning, CC0, from iNaturalist
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.