The open plant encyclopedia
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.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Nephelium papillatum is a tropical forest tree from Sabah, Borneo, grown mainly for its edible fruit relatives in the rambutan family. It is a large forest species, rarely cultivated, so care advice comes from general knowledge of rambutan-type trees.
Nephelium papillatum is a species of flowering plant, a tropical forest fruit-tree in the rambutan family, that is endemic to Borneo.
The species is found in the Malaysian state of Sabah in northern Borneo, where it occurs in mixed hill and lower montane forest, rich in oaks and chestnuts, at elevations of 600–1,300 m.
Nephelium aculeatum · Nephelium costatum · Nephelium cuspidatum · Nephelium hamulatum · Korlan · Nephelium juglandifolium · Nephelium lappaceum var. pallens · Rambutan · Nephelium maingayi · Pulasan · Nephelium xerospermoides · Nephelium
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Nephelium papillatum 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.
