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Chionanthus havilandii is a rare tree from the forests of Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo, reaching up to 20 m with fragrant yellow or white flowers. It is a wild forest species rarely grown in cultivation, so care is mainly a matter of mimicking humid tropical forest conditions.
Chionanthus havilandii grows as a tree up to 20 metres (70 ft) tall, with a trunk diameter of up to 35 centimetres (14 in). The bark is whitish. Inflorescences bear up to four pairs of fragrant yellow or white flowers. Fruit is green turning light brown, round, up to 2.5 centimetres (1 in) in diameter. Its habitat is forest near streams. C. havilandii is endemic to the Sarawak region of Malaysian Borneo.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chionanthus havilandii 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.
