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Artocarpus teysmannii, known as cempedak air, is a large fruiting tree from Southeast Asian lowland forests, grown for its sweet edible seed arils. It needs a warm, humid, wet tropical climate and deep, moist soil.
Artocarpus teysmannii, also known as cempedak air in Malay and as tilap in Indonesia, is a species of flowering plant, a fruit tree in the fig family, that is native to Southeast Asia.
The species is found in the Nicobar Islands, Peninsular Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra, Sulawesi, the Sulu Archipelago, and Western New Guinea, where it occurs naturally in lowland and hill mixed dipterocarp forest, as well as in swamp forest, up to an elevation of 1,000 m.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Artocarpus teysmannii 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.
