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

Daphne laciniata

Daphne laciniata is an evergreen shrub from Yunnan, China, growing 0.8 to 1.5 m tall, often in forest at 1,000 to 1,500 m. It is a little-known species, so most care advice is general Daphne practice: good drainage and cool, lightly shaded conditions.

Family
Thymelaeaceae (Thymelae family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Part shade
Water
Water when the top few centimetres of soil are dry, keeping it moist but never soggy.
Soil
Free-draining, humus-rich, slightly acidic to neutral soil.
Temperature
Suits cool temperate conditions; protect from hard frost and summer heat.
How easy
Moderate
Safety
Toxic: All parts, especially the bark, leaves and berries, contain daphnane diterpenoids and can cause severe irritation and vomiting if eaten.
Native range
China (Yunnan)
Climate
temperate

About

Daphne laciniata is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae, native to China (Yunnan). It was first described by Paul Henri Lecomte in 1916.

Daphne laciniata is an evergreen shrub, and grows from 0.8 to 1.5 m tall. It is often found in forests at an altitude between 1,000 and 1,500 meters.

Other Daphne plants

Daphne acutiloba · Alpine Daphne · Altai Mezereon · Daphne arbuscula · Daphne arisanensis · Lokta · Balkan Daphne · Daphne brevituba · Caucasian Daphne · Daphne championii · Daphne chingshuishaniana · Rose Daphne

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Daphne laciniata 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…