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Anthoshorea roxburghii
In Singapore: Temak (Grown in Singapore)
1 NParks heritage tree in Singapore: Found in Singapore Botanic Gardens, Lawn B
Anthoshorea roxburghii, commonly called White Meranti, is a large forest tree of the dipterocarp family native to tropical Asia. It is a timber tree of wet tropical forests and is not grown as a garden or houseplant.
Anthoshorea roxburghii is a species of tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is native to Cambodia, southern India, Laos, Malaysia, Burma, Thailand, and Vietnam.
[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 Anthoshorea roxburghii 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.
