Varronia curassavica – Tropical Black Sage

Nectar Plant

Pseudocoladenia dan – Fulvous Pied Flat
Tagiades japetus – Common Snow Flat
Neopithecops zalmora – Common Quaker
Acraea terpsicore – Tawny Coster
Euploea core – Common Crow
Hypolimnas bolina – Great Eggfly
Junonia iphita – Chocolate Pansy
Neptis hylas – Common Sailer
Parantica aglea – Glassy Tiger
Tirumala limniace – Blue Tiger
Graphium agamemnon – Tailed Jay
Graphium sarpedon – Common Bluebottle
Catopsilia pomona – Lemon Emigrant
Eurema hecabe – Common Grass Yellow

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Other notes

Natural History: An exotic sub-shrub from tropical America, cultivated elsewhere. Small white flowers arise in clusters at branch ends. These flowers attract many butterflies, but it can become invasive.

 

Note: Cordia cylindristachya (Ruiz & Pav.) Roem. & Schult. is not found in India (POWO, 2022).

 

References:

WFO (2022): World Flora Online. Accessed on 29 Dec 2022. URL: http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000420805.

POWO (2022): Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed on 29 Dec 2022. URL: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/262641-2.

Page citation

Manoj P. and N. Kawthankar 2025. Varronia curassavica Jacq. – Tropical Black Sage. In Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.12. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/varronia-curassavica, accessed 2025/01/15.