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

Phaleria

Phaleria
Photo: Tubantia, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Thymelaeaceae (Thymelae family)

About

Phaleria is a flowering plant genus of about 25 species in the family Thymelaeaceae, which range from Sri Lanka to Malesia, Papuasia, northern and eastern Australia, and islands of the western Pacific.

Uses

Phaleria macrocarpa is known to produce agarwood. Phaleria nisidai, locally known in Palau as delal a kar, 'the mother of medicines', is used as a panacea by Palauans.

Other Phaleria plants

Phaleria capitata · Scrub Daphne · Scented Daphne · Phaleria disperma · Phaleria macrocarpa · Dwarf Phaleria · Phaleria perrottetiana

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phaleria 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…