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Alstonia pneumatophora

1 NParks heritage tree in Singapore: Found in Singapore Botanic Gardens, Lawn H

Alstonia pneumatophora is a tree of the dogbane family native to wet tropical forests of Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Sulawesi and Sumatra. It is a large forest tree rather than a garden or houseplant, so it is grown mainly in tropical arboreta and botanical gardens.

Family
Apocynaceae (Dogbane family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist, as it grows in wet tropical rainfall.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile, moisture-retentive soil.
Temperature
22–30 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
W. & C. Malesia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Alstonia pneumatophora is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae. It is a tree native to Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Sulawesi, and Sumatra in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Other Alstonia plants

Alstonia angustifolia · Alstonia angustiloba · Alstonia · Alstonia constricta · Deviltree · Indian devil tree · Hard Milkwood · Alstonia

[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Alstonia pneumatophora 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.

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