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Canarium littorale

Canarium littorale is a large forest tree of tropical Southeast Asia, growing up to 40 m tall, in the incense tree family Burseraceae. It is a wild forest species rather than a garden or houseplant, so growing it depends on tropical climate and space.

Family
Burseraceae (Burser family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while young; mature trees in its native wet tropical climate need little extra irrigation.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile soil, tolerant of sandy coastal and forest soils.
Temperature
22–34 °C; protect from frost, which it cannot tolerate.
How easy
Hard
Native range
S. Indo-China to W. Malesia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Canarium littorale is a tree found in tropical Asia and is a member of the incense tree family Burseraceae. The specific epithet littorale is from the Latin meaning "of the seashore", referring to its habitat.

Where it grows

Canarium littorale grows naturally in Indo-China, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Java and Borneo. Its habitat is forests from sea-level to 1,100 metres (3,600 ft) altitude.

Other Canarium plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Canarium littorale 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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