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Beilschmiedia roxburghiana is a tropical forest tree in the laurel family, native from the Himalaya through Indo-China to Peninsular Malaysia. It is a forest timber and ornamental species rarely grown in gardens, and it needs warm, humid, shaded conditions.
Beilschmiedia roxburghiana is the type species of the tree genus Beilschmiedia in the family Lauraceae. Its native range is from India and the Himalayas through mainland Indo-China to Peninsular Malaysia. In Vietnam it may be called chắp chại or bạch mi; no subspecies are listed in the Catalogue of Life.
The species was described by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck in 1831.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Beilschmiedia roxburghiana 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.
