Cardiospermum halicacabum - Balloon Vine - Biodiversity of Singapore

Taxonomic tree

Kingdom Plantae 2414 Phylum Tracheophyta 2407 Subphylum Angiospermae 2272 Class Magnoliopsida 1790 Order Sapindales 101 Family Sapindaceae 23 Genus Cardiospermum 1

Cardiospermum halicacabum

Introduced

Cardiospermum halicacabum L. Species

Balloon Vine

Introduced climber species. Naturalized, cultivated.

Other common names

Black Winter Cherry en, Heart Pea en, Heart Seed en, Love-In-A-Puff en, Cenet ms, Dao Di Ling zh, Honeymoon Vine en, Lesser Balloonvine en, Love In A Puff en, Small Balloon Vine en, Winter Cherry en, 三角泡 zh, 倒地铃 zh, 倒地铃(小果倒地铃） zh, 包袱草 zh.

Distribution

Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Christmas Island, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curaçao, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Mariana Islands, Oman, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Reunion, Rwanda, Saint-Barthelemy, Saint-Martin, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, The Bahamas, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Turkey, Turks and Caicos Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Uganda, United States, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe.