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

Macaranga mauritiana

Macaranga mauritiana is a small tree from the Spurge family, endemic to Mauritius. It is a wild forest species rarely grown outside its native range, so care guidance is mostly general knowledge for the genus.

Family
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during growth and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-draining, humus-rich soil or a peat-based potting mix.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Mauritius
Climate
wet tropical

About

Macaranga mauritiana is a species of plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is endemic to Mauritius.

Other Macaranga plants

Macaranga attenuata · Macaranga bancana · Macaranga beillei · Macaranga bicolor · Macaranga capensis · Macaranga carolinensis · Macaranga caudatifolia · Macaranga congestiflora · Macaranga conglomerata · Macaranga denticulata · Giant Mahang · Coraltree

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Macaranga mauritiana 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…