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Chisocheton cumingianus is a rainforest tree of the mahogany family (Meliaceae), native from the eastern Himalayas and southern China through Southeast Asia to Papuasia. It is a forest timber and oil tree rather than a garden or houseplant, and it needs a warm, humid, wet-tropical climate to grow well.
Chisocheton cumingianus is a tree in the family Meliaceae. The tree is named for the English naturalist Hugh Cuming. Habitat is rain forests from sea-level to 1,300 metres (4,300 ft) elevation. C. cumingianus is found from India and tropical China through Indochina and throughout Malaysia. In the Philippines, the seeds of C. cumingianus (known locally as balukanag) are used to make a non-drying oil either for traditional medicine or as fuel for oil lamps.
Chisocheton amabilis · Chisocheton ceramicus · Chisocheton crustularii · Chisocheton cumingianus subsp. balansae · Chisocheton cumingianus subsp. kinabaluensis · Chisocheton erythrocarpus · Chisocheton granatum · Chisocheton koordersii · Chisocheton lansiifolius · Chisocheton lasiocarpus · Chisocheton macranthus · Chisocheton macrophyllus
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chisocheton cumingianus 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.
