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Nettle Trees

Dendrocnide

Also called Stinging Trees, Stinging Or Nettle Trees

Nettle Trees
Photo: gbohne from Berlin, Germany, CC BY-SA 2.0
Family
Urticaceae (Nettle family)
Grows as
Tree

About

Dendrocnide is a genus of approximately 40 species of plants in the nettle family Urticaceae. They have a wide distribution across North East India, Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands. In Australia they are commonly known as stinging trees.

Other Dendrocnide plants

Dendrocnide corallodesme · Dendrocnide cordata · Stinging Tree · Giant Stinging Tree · Dendrocnide meyeniana · Gimpi Gimpi · Stinging Tree · Shiny Leaved Stinging Tree · Dendrocnide sinuata · Dendrocnide urentissima

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dendrocnide by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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