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Bhesa robusta is a large forest tree from tropical and subtropical Asia, found in moist lowland dipterocarp forests up to about 1,100 m. It is not a common garden or houseplant, so care advice below is general and based on its natural habitat.
Bhesa robusta is a species of plant in the Centroplacaceae family. It is a tree native to Indochina (Andaman Islands, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam), southeastern China, Nepal and the eastern Himalayas, Bangladesh, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo. It is widespread in tropical and subtropical moist lowland forests, typically dipterocarp forests, up to 1,100 metres (3,610 ft) elevation.
The species was first described as Celastrus robustus by William Roxburgh in 1824. In 1958 Ding Hou placed the species in genus Bhesa as B. robusta.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bhesa robusta 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.
