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Calophyllum rufinerve

Calophyllum rufinerve is a tree from the Calophyllaceae family, native to rainforest on islands in Cenderawasih Bay in Western New Guinea, Indonesia. It is a wild rainforest species rarely grown as a garden or houseplant, and it needs a wet tropical climate.

Family
Calophyllaceae (Calophyll family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist, as it grows in wet rainforest.
Soil
Rich, well-drained, humus-rich forest soil.
Temperature
22–32 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
W. New Guinea
Climate
wet tropical

About

Calophyllum rufinerve is a species of flowering plant in the Calophyllaceae family. It a tree native to islands in Cenderawasih Bay in Western New Guinea region of Indonesia. It grows in Agathis rain forest at 400 metres elevation.

Other Calophyllum plants

Calophyllum acidus · Calophyllum acutiputamen · Antilles calophyllum · Calophyllum apetalum · Alligatorbark · Calophyllum austroindicum · Calophyllum bicolor · Calophyllum bifurcatum · Calophyllum bracteatum · Santa Maria · Calophyllum brassii · Calophyllum calaba

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Calophyllum rufinerve 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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