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Deplanchea bancana

Deplanchea bancana is a large rainforest tree of the trumpet-vine family, native to Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo, that can reach around 45 m tall. It is a forest timber tree rather than a garden plant, so it is not realistically grown for care at home.

Family
Bignoniaceae (Trumpet-vine family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist, as in its wet tropical lowland forest habitat.
Soil
Moist, fertile, well-drained forest soil.
Temperature
22–32 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
W. & C. Malesia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Deplanchea bancana is a tree in the family Bignoniaceae. It is named for Sumatra's Bangka Island.

Where it grows

Deplanchea bancana grows naturally in Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo. Its habitat is lowland forests from sea-level to 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) altitude.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Deplanchea bancana 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.

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