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Dipterocarpus gracilis is a large forest tree native to South and Southeast Asia, valued mainly as a timber source for keruing wood and plywood. It is a rainforest canopy species and is not grown as a garden or houseplant, so care guidance applies only to conservation or very large-scale cultivation.
Dipterocarpus gracilis (Tagalog: panao / Indonesia: kaboa aka sancang) is a Vulnerable species of tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae, native to South Asia and Southeast Asia.
D. gracilis is native to Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, India (Assam and the Andaman Islands), Indonesia (Kalimantan, Java, and Sumatra), Malaysia (Sarawak, Sabah, and Peninsular Malaysia), Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. It grows in lowland evergreen and semi-evergreen forests, in valleys, and on ridges and slopes from sea level up to 900 m (3,000 ft) above sea level. It prefers well-drained soils and often dominates the canopy of the forests it inhabits.
It is often used as a commercial grade plywood, it is one of the most important sources of keruing timber.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dipterocarpus gracilis 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.
