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Cinnamomum politum is a large forest tree from Borneo, growing up to 30 metres tall in the wild. It is a wild forest species rarely grown in cultivation, so care guidance is mostly general to its genus.
Cinnamomum politum is a species of tree in the laurel family (Lauraceae). It is endemic to Borneo.
It is native to Sarawak (Bintulu, Lundu, Marudi and Miri districts), Sabah (Papar district), Brunei, and East Kalimantan. It grows in mixed dipterocarp forest on leached sandy soil, podsolised white sand or sandstone-derived soil to 1000 metres elevation, in kerangas forest, and in lower montane forest up to 1470 metres elevation.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cinnamomum politum 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.
