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Palosapis

Anisoptera thurifera

Also called Palosapis Tree

Palosapis
Photo: Francisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.), Public domain

Palosapis is a large tropical forest tree in the dipterocarp family, native to the Philippines, Sulawesi, Maluku and New Guinea, and listed as Vulnerable. It is a forest timber tree rather than a garden plant, so care notes apply mainly to seedlings in a tropical setting.

Family
Dipterocarpaceae (Dipterocarp family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during establishment and water during dry spells.
Soil
Deep, well-drained loamy soil.
Temperature
22–34 °C; protect below 15 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Philippines to New Guinea
Climate
wet tropical

About

Anisoptera thurifera is a tree species in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is native to the Philippines, Maluku Islands, Sulawesi, and New Guinea. The IUCN has assessed it as Vulnerable.

Other Anisoptera plants

Anisoptera aurea · Mersawa · Anisoptera curtisii · Krabak · Anisoptera laevis · Anisoptera marginata · Anisoptera megistocarpa · Anisoptera reticulata · Anisoptera scaphula · Anisoptera

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Anisoptera thurifera 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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