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.
Ocotea puberula is a species of flowering plant in genus Ocotea of the family Lauraceae. It is an evergreen tree native to the tropical Americas, ranging through tropical Mexico and from Costa Rica and Panama through tropical South America to northern Argentina. It grows in moist lowland and montane tropical and subtropical forests up to 1,600 meters elevation.
The species was first described as Laurus puberula by Louis Claude Richard in 1792. In 1836 Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck placed it in genus Ocotea as Ocotea puberula.
Ocotea aciphylla · Ocotea amplifolia · Ocotea basicordatifolia · Ocotea benthamiana · Black Stinkwood · Ocotea catharinensis · Ocotea cuneata · Ocotea gabonensis · Ocotea glaucosericea · Ocotea harrisii · Ocotea heterochroma · Ocotea jelskii
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ocotea puberula 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.
