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Diospyros cauliflora is a tree from Southeast Asia that grows up to about 17 metres, notable for flowers and fruit borne directly on the trunk and branches. It needs a warm, humid tropical climate and is mainly a forest species rather than a common garden plant.
Diospyros cauliflora is a tree in the family Ebenaceae. The specific epithet cauliflora means cauliflorous, i.e. flowers growing directly from the trunk or branches.
Diospyros cauliflora is native to an area of mainland and maritime Southeast Asia, from Myanmar south and east to the Maluku Islands. Its habitat is in lowland dipterocarp and hill forests, to elevations of around 500 m (1,600 ft).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Diospyros cauliflora 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.
