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Artocarpus chama

Artocarpus chama
Photo: এ বি এম ফয়সাল হোসেন, CC BY-SA 4.0

Artocarpus chama is a wild forest tree in the breadfruit and jackfruit genus, native to parts of South and Southeast Asia. It is rarely grown outside its native range, so care guidance here is limited and mostly reflects what suits its wet tropical origin.

Family
Moraceae (Fig & mulberry family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist during growth and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Deep, fertile, well-drained loam rich in organic matter.
Temperature
20–32 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Sikkim to China (Yunnan) and Bangladesh
Climate
wet tropical

About

Artocarpus chama is a tree in the family Moraceae: a wild species of the breadfruit/jackfruit genus (Artocarpus) and may be referred to as the 'chaplaish'; its Vietnamese name is mít nài (also used for other forest species). Distribution records are from: Yunnan China, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sikkim and Thailand.

Other Artocarpus plants

Breadfruit · Entawak · Antipolo · Breadfruit · Artocarpus dadah · Artocarpus · Artocarpus glaucus · Artocarpus gomezianus · Jackfruit · Hirsute artocarpus · Breadfruit · Silver Back Artocarpus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Artocarpus chama 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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