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

Hopea canarensis

Family
Dipterocarpaceae (Dipterocarp family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
India (Karnataka)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Hopea canarensis is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is endemic to Karnataka state in southwestern India. It is a large tree which grows up to 30 metres tall. It grows in lowland and montane moist forests in the Western Ghats from 750 to 1,440 metres elevation, including in Shola forest enclaves surrounded by montane grasslands. The species is threatened by habitat loss and habitat degradation, and the IUCN Red List assesses the species as Endangered.

The species was described in 1918 by Robert Selby Hole.

Other Hopea plants

Dalingdingan · Hopea aequalis · Hopea altocollina · Hopea andersonii · Hopea apiculata · Hopea aptera · Hopea auriculata · Hopea bancana · Hopea basilanica · Hopea beccariana · Hopea bilitonensis · Hopea brachyptera

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

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…