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Canarium decumanum

Canarium decumanum
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Canarium decumanum is a very large lowland rainforest tree of the Burser family, native to Borneo, the Moluccas and New Guinea, growing up to about 54 m tall. It is a forest timber and fruit tree rarely grown as a garden plant, so care is mainly for seedlings or specimen planting in warm, humid conditions.

Family
Burseraceae (Burser family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist while young and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile, humus-rich loam.
Temperature
22–34 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
E. Borneo to Bismarck Arch. (Manus I.)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Canarium decumanum is a tree in the family Burseraceae. The specific epithet decumanum is from the Latin meaning 'greatest', referring to the size of the tree and the fruit.

Where it grows

Canarium decumanum grows naturally in Borneo, the Moluccas and New Guinea. Its habitat is lowland forests.

Other Canarium plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Canarium decumanum 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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