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Wight's Hackberry

Celtis philippensis

Wight's Hackberry
Photo: Yercaud-elango, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Cannabaceae (Hemp family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to N. Australia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Celtis philippensis is an Asian species of flowering plant in the family Cannabaceae. It is a tree which can grow up to 30 metres (98 ft) tall. It ranges from India and Sri Lanka to southern China and Taiwan, the Philippines, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, and northern Australia.

It grows in tropical and subtropical forests, including moist evergreen forests, monsoon forests, and littoral forests, from sea level up to 1,400 metres (4,600 ft) elevation.

Other Celtis plants

Celtis adolfi-friderici · White stinkwood · Nettle Tree · Celtis balansae · Biond’s Hackberry · Celtis brasiliensis · Bunge's hackberry · Caucasian hackberry · Celtis conferta subsp. amblyphylla · Cottonwood · Spiny hackberry · Celtis glabrata

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Celtis philippensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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