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Canarium vulgare
Also called Chinese Olive, Kenarinut Tree
1 NParks heritage tree in Singapore: Found in Singapore Botanic Gardens, Tyersall Learning Forest (Canarium Pond area)
Canarium vulgare, the Java almond, is a tree in the Burseraceae family native to parts of the eastern Java Sea, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sulawesi and the Maluku Islands. It is closely related to and was long confused with Canarium indicum, so care advice should be checked against the species you actually have.
Canarium vulgare, known as Java almond, is a species of Canarium native to eastern Java Sea (Bawean and Kangean Islands), Lesser Sunda Islands, Sulawesi and Maluku Islands.
C. vulgare is closely related to C. indicum, and they used to be one species under the name Canarium commune L., which has caused much confusion. Their main difference is that the stipule of C. vulgare is entire and caducous, while that of C. indicum is dentate and persistent.
Java almond · Elemi tree · Pili nut · Canarium pseudodecumanum
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Canarium vulgare 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.
