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

Virola multinervia

Virola multinervia is a large tropical rainforest tree of the nutmeg family, reaching about 35 m tall in the Amazon basin. It is a timber and forest species, not a garden or houseplant, so care guidance mainly applies to rare cultivation.

Family
Myristicaceae (Myristic family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep consistently moist, as it grows in wet tropical forest.
Soil
Deep, moist, well-drained forest soil.
Temperature
22–32 °C; protect below 15 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Panama to S. Venezuela and Bolivia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Virola multinervia is a species of tree in the family Myristicaceae. It is found in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Brazil (Amazonas, Pará). It grows to a height of about 35m. The fruit is ellipsoidal to ovoidal, 26–40 mm long, 19–32 mm in diameter, and is found in groups of 1 to 7.

Other Virola plants

Virola · Virola carinata · Virola divergens · Sacred Virola · Virola pavonis · Virola peruviana · Virola · Baboonwood · Virola · Virola

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Virola multinervia 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…