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Chisocheton lasiocarpus is a large rainforest tree of the mahogany family, native to Maluku through to the Solomon Islands and western New Guinea, reaching about 33 m. It is a forest timber tree rather than a garden plant, so it is not commonly grown.
Chisocheton lasiocarpus is a species of tree in the genus Chisocheton in the mahogany family Meliaceae. It is a sparsely branched, slightly buttressed, somewhat stout mesocaul or rather slender pachycaul tree of the western New Guinea rainforest rising to 33 m (108 ft) in height, and possibly the only such tree with a weeping habit, the huge terminal rosettes of pinnate leaves 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) long with an 8–15 cm (3.1–5.9 in) petiole, on the lower branches facing down toward the earth. Like all Chisocheton species, C. lasiocarpus has indeterminate leaves with a tiny circinate bud at the tip of each leaf which produces a new pair of leaflets every few weeks or months over a period of several years, each leaf eventually reaching 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) in length. There are 9 to 11 pairs of leaflets at a time (the oldest may die as new ones are formed).
Chisocheton amabilis · Chisocheton ceramicus · Chisocheton crustularii · Chisocheton cumingianus subsp. balansae · Chisocheton cumingianus subsp. kinabaluensis · Chisocheton cumingianus · Chisocheton erythrocarpus · Chisocheton granatum · Chisocheton koordersii · Chisocheton lansiifolius · Chisocheton macranthus · Chisocheton macrophyllus
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chisocheton lasiocarpus 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.
