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Calophyllum heterophyllum is a tree or shrub native to New Guinea, growing as a canopy tree in lowland rain forest or as a smaller shrub or tree in montane rain forest. It is a rainforest species rarely grown outside its native range, so care guidance is general.
Calophyllum heterophyllum is a species of flowering plant in the Calophyllaceae family. It a shrub or tree endemic to New Guinea. It is known from the Vogelkop Peninsula and Snow Mountains of Western New Guinea (Indonesia) and from Western Province of Papua New Guinea. It can grow up to 29 metres tall as a canopy tree on low ridges (approximately 100 metres elevation) in lowland rain forest, but more often grows as shrubs or small trees on poor loam soils in montane rain forest from 1,200 to 1,300 metres elevation.
The species was described by Peter F. Stevens in 1974.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Calophyllum heterophyllum 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.
