Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

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.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Canarium acutifolium

Canarium acutifolium
Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY 4.0

Canarium acutifolium is a large forest tree from Malesia, Papua and northern Queensland, grown mainly for its timber and its resin-bearing nature rather than as an ornamental. It needs a warm, humid tropical climate and a lot of space.

Family
Burseraceae (Burser family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep soil evenly moist while young and water regularly in dry spells; established trees tolerate wet tropical rainfall well.
Soil
Deep, well-drained fertile soil.
Temperature
22-32 °C; protect from frost, which it cannot tolerate.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Maluku to Papuasia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Canarium acutifolium is a species of plant in the family Burseraceae, native to eastern Malesia, Papuasia and Queensland.

Other Canarium plants

Chinese white olive · Canarium apertum · Canarium asperum · Brown Cudgerie · Scrub turpentine · Canarium caudatum · Canarium decumanum · Canarium denticulatum · Canarium dichotomum · Canarium divergens · Canarium elegans · Canarium fuscocalycinum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Canarium acutifolium by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…