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Dendrocnide cordata is a rainforest tree from New Guinea and nearby islands, reaching about 10 m, with large leaves covered in stinging hairs. It is not grown as a garden or houseplant, and the key point for anyone encountering it is to avoid contact with the foliage.
Dendrocnide cordata, the stinger, is a species of flowering plant in the nettle family Urticaceae, native to the Bismarck Archipelago, the Lesser Sunda Islands and New Guinea. It is a rainforest tree reaching 10 m (33 ft), with irritating hairs on its large leaves.
The name has been misapplied in the past to some occurrences of D. moroides and D. cordifolia in Queensland.
Dendrocnide corallodesme · Stinging Tree · Giant Stinging Tree · Dendrocnide meyeniana · Gimpi Gimpi · Stinging Tree · Shiny Leaved Stinging Tree · Dendrocnide sinuata · Dendrocnide urentissima · Nettle Trees
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dendrocnide cordata 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.
