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Canarium caudatum

Canarium caudatum is a large forest tree from the Burseraceae family, native to Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo, reaching up to 36 m tall. It is a rainforest canopy species rarely grown outside its native region, so care guidance is limited to general tropical tree needs.

Family
Burseraceae (Burser family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep soil consistently moist during establishment, then water during dry spells.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich forest soil or loam; tolerates sandy kerangas soils.
Temperature
Warm tropical conditions, roughly 20–32 °C; protect from frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
W. Malesia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Canarium caudatum is a species of tree in the family Burseraceae. The specific epithet caudatum means 'tailed', referring to the tapering of the tree's leaflet.

Where it grows

Canarium caudatum is native to Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo. Its habitat is lowland mixed dipterocarp and kerangas forests from sea-level to 230 metres (800 ft) altitude.

Other Canarium plants

Canarium acutifolium · Chinese white olive · Canarium apertum · Canarium asperum · Brown Cudgerie · Scrub turpentine · Canarium decumanum · Canarium denticulatum · Canarium dichotomum · Canarium divergens · Canarium elegans · Canarium fuscocalycinum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Canarium caudatum 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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