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Cratoxylum cochinchinense
Also called Yellow Cow Wood
In Singapore: Derum Selunchor, Yellow Cow Wood, Mampat, Baduk-baduk, Red Mempat, 黄牛木 (Native to Singapore, Endangered)
1 NParks heritage tree in Singapore: Found in Telok Blangah Green, near Shelter, Meeting Point 1, Carpark 2
Red Memphat (Cratoxylum cochinchinense) is a tropical shrub or tree of Southeast Asian forests, reaching 10 to 15 m with crimson flowers. It grows best in warm, humid conditions with plenty of sun and moist soil.
Cratoxylum cochinchinense is a species of flowering plant in the family Hypericaceae. It is sometimes referred to using an orthographic variant Cratoxylon cochinsinensis (Lour.) Blume in Vietnam, where the species was described. The specific epithet cochinchinense is from the Latin meaning "of Cochinchina". In Vietnamese, C. cochinchinense is usually called thành ngạch nam or lành ngạnh nam, other names include: hoàng ngưu mộc, hoàng ngưu trà and đỏ ngọn.
In Malesia, the trees are cut for derum timber.
Cratoxylum cochinchinense is native to the Andaman Islands, Borneo, Cambodia, South-Central and Southeast China, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Nicobar Islands, the Philippines, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its habitat is sub-tropical and tropical forests, including kerangas forests and peat swamps.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cratoxylum cochinchinense 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.
