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Bhesa indica is an evergreen forest tree of the Centroplacaceae family, native to the wet evergreen forests of the Western Ghats in India, growing up to about 30 m tall. It is a large timber-type tree rather than a garden plant, and it is not commonly grown as a houseplant or in cultivation.
Bhesa indica is a flowering plant tree species in the Centroplacaceae family. It is distributed along the tropical wet evergreen forests of the Western Ghats of India. It is considered synonymous with Bhesa paniculata by some authors.
Considered together Bhesa indica and Bhesa paniculata are distributed in parts of southern India, Thailand, Malay peninsula, Indonesia, Borneo, and the Philippines. Bhesa indica is known from southern India, mainly from the Western Ghats, while B. paniculata extends also into parts of south-east Asia. Bhesa indica occurs along the Western Ghats from the Agasthyamalai hills in the south to the Anaimalai hills in the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, mainly in the evergreen forests from around 900 m to 1800 m.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bhesa indica 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.
