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

Ceara Rubbertree

Manihot carthaginensis subsp. glaziovii

In Singapore: Ceara Rubber Tree, False Tapioca, Manicoba, Ubi (Grown in Singapore)

Ceara Rubbertree
Photo: Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, Public domain
Family
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)
Grows as
Tree

About

Manihot carthaginensis subsp. glaziovii, also known as Manihot glaziovii, the tree cassava or Ceara rubber tree, is a species of deciduous flowering plant in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, that is native to eastern Brazil.

Uses

The tree cassava was used a source of rubber, instead of Hevea brasiliensis throughout the world. The plant is introduced largely in the world, but now it is classified as one of the highly invasive plant of the world.

Other Manihot plants

Buckeye Leafed Cassava · Cassava · Graham's manihot · Manihot pentaphylla · Manihot pulchrifolius · Walker's manihot · Cassava

[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]

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

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

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

Your photo
Starting camera…