The natural geographic origin is South Asia, probably India. Worldwide, it is distributed on the Asian continent in the countries of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, China and Japan. In the American continent it is distributed in the United States, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Caribbean region, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia.