The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Bhesa is a small genus of woody plants in the family Centroplacaceae. Its natural distribution is from southern China to New Guinea. It was formerly classified in Celastraceae, until a molecular phylogenetic study placed it in the family Centroplacaceae in the order Malpighiales.
There are eight species:
Bhesa ceylanica · Bhesa indica · Bhesa nitidissima · Bhesa paniculata · Bhesa robusta
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bhesa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
