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Greater Tampoi

Baccaurea macrocarpa

Greater Tampoi
Photo: Toshiko Go, CC BY 2.0

Greater tampoi is a small tropical rainforest tree that bears large orange-skinned, white-fleshed fruit directly on its trunk and large branches. Its trees are dioecious, so male and female plants are needed for fruit.

Family
Phyllanthaceae (Phyllanth family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist and never let it dry out completely, as it comes from wet rainforest.
Soil
Rich, well-draining, humus-rich soil or a peat-based mix.
Temperature
22–34 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Safety
Not known to be toxic
Native range
Pen. Thailand to W. Malesia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Baccaurea macrocarpa, also called tampoi, is a small, tropical rainforest substory fruit tree in the family Phyllanthaceae native to Southeast Asia, especially Borneo. It is dioecious, and the female tree bear fruit directly on the trunk and large branches. The fruit is large, orange-skinned, white-fleshed, with a delicious tangy flavour somewhat like mandarin (tangerine). Depending on conditions, the fruit may closely clothe the trunk beautifully, like the fruit of many Ficus species.

Other Baccaurea plants

Rambai · Baccaurea polyneura

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Baccaurea macrocarpa 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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