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

Durio

Durio
Photo: Unknown author, Public domain

Durio is a genus of about 30 species of small to large tropical trees in the mallow family, best known for durian fruit. Durio zibethinus is the most widely grown species, and the fruit is eaten from about 11 species.

Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep soil consistently moist, especially when young, without waterlogging.
Soil
Deep, fertile, well-drained loam rich in organic matter.
Temperature
22-32 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Edible
Yes, some parts

About

Durio is a genus of about 30 species of small to large trees in the mallow family Malvaceae. 11 species produce edible fruit, known as durian, that also have a plethora local and regional names. Durio zibethinus is the most widely-cultivated and commercialized species.

Other Durio plants

Durio dulcis · Red-fleshed durian · Durio macrantha · Durion

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Durio 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.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…