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.
Castanopsis paucispina is a large forest tree from western Borneo, related to chestnuts and oaks, reaching up to 30 m tall. It is a wild rainforest species rather than a garden or houseplant, so care details apply mainly to specialist or botanic-garden cultivation in wet tropical climates.
Castanopsis paucispina is a tree in the family Fagaceae. The specific epithet paucispina means 'few spines', referring to the sparsely spined cupule.
Castanopsis paucispina is endemic to Borneo. Its habitat is hill dipterocarp forests up to 1,100 m (3,600 ft) elevation.
Papua New Guinea Oak · Castanopsis argentea · Castanopsis borneensis · Castanopsis buruana · Castanopsis catappifolia · Castanopsis clemensii · Chinquapin · Castanopsis costata · Castanopsis curtisii · Japanese Chinquapin · Castanopsis densinervia · Castanopsis endertii
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Castanopsis paucispina 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.
