Candlenut
Aleurites moluccanus (L.) Willd.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 11 m
- wide
- —
Euphorbiaceae
Formerly Aleurites ambinux, Aleurites angustifolius, Aleurites commutatus, Aleurites cordifolius, and 17 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to W. PacificKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Oregon State University Landscape Plants, one source
- Height
- 6.0 m to 15 mRead from Oregon State University Landscape Plants, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Oregon State University Landscape Plants, one source
- Flowers
- CreamRead from Oregon State University Landscape Plants, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from Oregon State University Landscape Plants, one source
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (8)
- Chinese
- 石栗, 石栗叶, 石栗子
- Simplified Chinese
- 石栗
- Buginese
- ᨄᨛᨒᨛ
- German
- Lichtnussbaum
- Finnish
- Hopeatungpuu
- Dutch
- kemirie
- Portuguese
- Nogueira de Iguape
- Tongan
- Tuitui
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Oregon State University Landscape Plants, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- 3D model: Aleurites moluccanus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.