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

Cassipourea congoensis

Cassipourea congoensis is a tropical African tree in the Rhizophoraceae family, found in moist lowland forests and swamps. It needs warm, humid, wet conditions and is rarely grown outside its native range.

Family
Rhizophoraceae (Rhizophor family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep soil consistently moist; it naturally grows in swampy ground.
Soil
Moist, humus-rich, well-drained but water-retentive mix.
Temperature
20–32 °C; protect below 15 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
W. Trop. Africa to SW. Uganda
Climate
wet tropical

About

Cassipourea congoensis is a species of flowering plant in the Rhizophoraceae family. It is a tree native to the Guineo-Congolian region of west and west-central tropical Africa, ranging from Senegal to Tanzania and southwestern Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Other Cassipourea plants

Cassipourea brittoniana · Cassipourea dinklagei · Cassipourea eketensis · Cassipourea fanshawei · Small Leaved Bastard Onionwood · Cassipourea hiotou · Cassipourea lanceolata · African Onionwood · Cassipourea obovata · Cassipourea subcordata · Cassipourea subsessilis · Cassipourea swaziensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cassipourea congoensis 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…