Verbascum thapsus L.

ver-BASK-um -- corruption of the Latin barbascum, meaning with a beard ... Dave's Botanary
THAP-sus -- of or from an ancient village Thapsus, in Sicily ... Dave's Botanary

commonly known as: Aaron's rod, Adam's flannel, beggar's blanket, candlewick plant, cow's lungwort, flannel mullein, flannel plant, great mullein, hag's taper, Jupiter's staff, velvet dock, velvet plant, woolly mullein • Dogri: गीदड़ तम्बाकू gidad tambaku, सुट्ट तम्हाकू sutt tamhaku • Hindi: बन तम्बाकू ban tambaku, गीदड़ तमाकू gidar tamaku, ककड़ी तमाखू kakri tamakhu • Kannada: ಕಾಡು ಹೊಗೇಸೊಪ್ಪು kaadu hogesoppu • Kashmiri: फूल् phul • Malayalam: കാട്ടുപുകയില kaattupukayila • Mongpa people: jyugpaserji • Nepali: बाँदर पुच्छ्रे baandar puchchhre, गुना पुच्छर guna puchchhar, गुन्ठो guntho • Pahari: बन तमाकू ban tamaku, गद्दी तमाकू gaddi tamaku, गिदड़ तमाकू gidar tamaku, जंगली तंबाखू jungli tumbakhu, लांकड़ा lankda, फूल्ला phulla • Punjabi: ਏਕਲਬੀਰ ekalbir, ਗਿੱਦਡ਼ ਤਮਾਕ੍ਕੂ giddar tamakku, ਫਸਰੂਕ phasruk, ਰੇਉਂਦ reund • Rajasthani: गीदड़ तमाकू gidar tamaku • Tamil: காட்டுப்புகையிலை kattu-p-pukaiyilai • Urdu: جنگلي تماکو jangli tamaku


botanical names: Verbascum thapsus L. ... homotypic synonyms: Verbascum spectabile Salisb. ... accepted infraspecific: Verbascum thapsus subsp. thapsus ... POWO, retrieved 16 January 2025

Bibliography / etymology

Links listed as references in the notes below, may not remain valid permanently. Portals / websites have a tendency to re-organize / revise their content, leading to change in URLs of pages in their site. Some sites may even close down at their own will. The bits about the languages of India mentioned below are merely some bare facts gathered from the internet; just enough to satisfy curiosity about "where" could the listed names be best prevalent in India. All English transliterated names to be taken sensu amplo.

~~~~~ ENGLISH ~~~~~

written and spoken widely, in most parts of India

Aaron's rod

• FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants
• Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia

Adam's flannel, flannel plant

• FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants

beggar's blanket, candlewick plant, flannel mullein, hag's taper, Jupiter's staff, velvet dock, velvet plant, woolly mullein

• Ved Prakash - Studies on the ethnobotany of Shikari Devi Sanctuary and Kamrunag Hills, District Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India - Shodhganga

cow's lungwort

• The Useful Plants of India, Publications & Information Directorate, CSIR

great mullein (or greater mullein)

• Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia

~~~~~ DOGRI ~~~~~

written in: Devanagari (डोगरी) ... spoken in: Jammu & Kashmir ... spoken by the Dogras

गीदड़ तम्बाकू gidad tambaku, सुट्ट तम्हाकू sutt tamhaku

• Many thanks to OM Prakash Vidyarthi for help with these names ... facebook

~~~~~ HINDI ~~~~~

written in: Devanagari (हिन्दी) ... spoken in: Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand

बन तम्बाकू ban tambaku, गीदड़ तमाकू gidar tamaku

• Ved Prakash - Studies on the ethnobotany of Shikari Devi Sanctuary and Kamrunag Hills, District Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India - Shodhganga

ककड़ी तमाखू kakri tamakhu

• FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants

~~~~~ KANNADA ~~~~~

written in: Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ) ... spoken in: Karnataka

ಕಾಡು ಹೊಗೇಸೊಪ್ಪು kaadu hogesoppu

• FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants

~~~~~ KASHMIRI ~~~~~

written in: Koshur (Perso-Arabic كٲشُر), Devanagari (कश्मीरी), ... spoken in: Kashmir ... other names for this language: Koshur

फूल् phul

• A dictionary of the Kashmiri language by George Abraham Grierson

~~~~~ MALAYALAM ~~~~~

written in: Malayalam (മലയാളം) ... spoken in: Kerala, Lakshadweep

കാട്ടുപുകയില kaattupukayila

• name of another plant shared, for want of name; കാട്ടുപുകയില kaattupukayila = wild tobacco; this name in first place is given to Lobelia nicotianifolia Roth ... name shared with Verbascum thapsus L. ... leaves of both these wild-growing plants resemble to those of tobacco

~~~~~ MONPA (languages spoken by the Monpa people) ~~~~~

distinct languages spoken by the Monpa people, written in their own scripts (if any) or Latin ... spoken in: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam

jyugpaserji

• Tsering, Jambey & Tag, Hui & Yomcha, Tajum & Rinya, Koj. (2023). Wild ethnomedicinal plants used by the Monpa community in Arunachal Pradesh, India. Bulletin of Arunachal Forest Research, Vol. 36(1&2), 14–30: 2022

~~~~~ NEPALI ~~~~~

written in: Devanagari (नेपाली) ... spoken in: Nepal, West Bengal, Assam, Sikkim

बाँदर पुच्छ्रे baandar puchchhre, गुना पुच्छर guna puchchhar, गुन्ठो guntho

• Many thanks to Saroj Kumar Kasaju for help with these names ... efloraofindia

~~~~~ PAHARI (or PAHADI) ~~~~~

written in: Devanagari (पहाड़ी), Perso-Arabic (پہاڑی) ... variety of languages, dialects and language groups, spoken in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand

बन तमाकू ban tamaku, फूल्ला phulla

• Flora of Shimla - Himachal Pradesh State Biodiversity Board

गद्दी तमाकू gaddi tamaku

• Flora of Himachal Pradesh - Himachal Pradesh State Biodiversity Board

गिदड़ तमाकू gidar tamaku

• Plants of Shimla Forest Division - Himachal Pradesh State Biodiversity Board

जंगली तंबाखू jungli tumbakhu

• Flora of Chamba - Himachal Pradesh State Biodiversity Board

लांकड़ा lankda

• Many thanks to OM Prakash Vidyarthi for help with this name ... facebook

~~~~~ PUNJABI ~~~~~

written in: Gurmukhi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ) ... spoken in: Punjab

ਏਕਲਬੀਰ ekalbir, ਗਿੱਦਡ਼ ਤਮਾਕ੍ਕੂ giddar tamakku, ਫਸਰੂਕ phasruk, ਰੇਉਂਦ reund

• The Panjabi dictionary. Bhai Maya Singh

~~~~~ RAJASTHANI ~~~~~

written in: Devanagari (राजस्थानी) ... spoken in: Rajasthan

गीदड़ तमाकू gidar tamaku

• Tripathi, Yogesh & Prabhu, V.V. & Pal, R.S. & Mishra, R.N.. (1996). Medicinal Plants of Rajasthan in Indian System of Medicine. Ancient Science of Life. 15. 190-212.

~~~~~ TAMIL ~~~~~

written in: Tamil (தமிழ்) ... spoken in: Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Andaman & Nicobar Islands

காட்டுப்புகையிலை kattu-p-pukaiyilai

• name of another plant shared, for want of name; காட்டுப்புகையிலை kattu-p-pukaiyilai = wild tobacco; this name in first place is given to Lobelia nicotianifolia Roth ... name shared with Verbascum thapsus L. ... leaves of both these wild-growing plants resemble to those of tobacco

~~~~~ URDU ~~~~~

written in: Urdu (اردو) ... spoken in: Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Bihar, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka

جنگلي تماکو jangli tamaku

• Ved Prakash - Studies on the ethnobotany of Shikari Devi Sanctuary and Kamrunag Hills, District Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India - Shodhganga

~~~~~ DISTRIBUTION in INDIA ~~~~~

Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand

• Karnataka, Kerala :: Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. Downloaded on 17 January 2025.
• Hassler, Michael (1994 - 2025): World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. Version 25.01; last update January 12th, 2025. Last accessed 16/01/2025 (dd/mm/yyyy).

~~~~~ Created on: 13:57 16-01-2025 ¦ Last updated: 12:53 18-01-2025 ~~~~~

Scrophulariaceae Scrofulariaceae annual biennial herb "Verbascum thapsus" "Verbascum spectabile" "Verbascum thapsus subsp. thapsus" "Aaron's rod" "Adam's flannel" "beggar's blanket" "candlewick plant" "cow's lungwort" "flannel mullein" "flannel plant" "great mullein" "hag's taper" "Jupiter's staff" "velvet dock" "velvet plant" "woolly mullein"