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Anthoshorea symingtonii

Anthoshorea symingtonii, known as white meranti, is a large emergent rainforest tree from eastern Sabah in Borneo, reaching up to 50 m tall. It is not a plant for home cultivation, and the sources give no horticultural care information.

Family
Dipterocarpaceae (Dipterocarp family)
Grows as
Tree
Soil
Clay-rich soils in its native habitat
Native range
Borneo (E. Sabah)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Anthoshorea symingtonii (also called white meranti) is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is endemic to eastern Sabah in Malaysian Borneo.

It is a large emergent tree, growing up to 50 meters tall with a trunk up to 1.5 metres in diameter.

Other Anthoshorea plants

White Meranti · Makai · Anthoshorea bentongensis · Anthoshorea bracteolata · Anthoshorea confusa · Anthoshorea cordata · Anthoshorea dealbata · Anthoshorea gratissima · Anthoshorea henryana · Anthoshorea hulanidda · Anthoshorea hypochra · Damar

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Anthoshorea symingtonii 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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