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Dysoxylum magnificum

Dysoxylum magnificum is a large rainforest tree from Sumatra and Borneo, reaching up to 25 m tall, rarely grown outside its native range. It needs warm, humid, shaded conditions similar to a lowland tropical forest.

Family
Meliaceae (Meli family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during growth and never let it dry out completely.
Soil
Rich, well-drained, humus-heavy forest-type mix.
Temperature
22–32 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
SE. Sumatera to NW. Borneo
Climate
wet tropical

About

Dysoxylum magnificum is a species of tree in the family Meliaceae. The specific epithet magnificum is from the Latin meaning 'magnificent'.

Where it grows

Dysoxylum magnificum is found in Sumatra and Borneo. Its habitat is rain forests from sea-level to 500 metres (1,600 ft) altitude.

Other Dysoxylum plants

Dysoxylum acutangulum · Dysoxylum brachybotrys · Dysoxylum carolinae · Dysoxylum cyrtobotryum · Dysoxylum flavescens · Dysoxylum gotadhora · Dysoxylum grande · Dysoxylum latifolium · Dysoxylum macrocarpum · White Cedar · Pink Mahogany · Dysoxylum pachyrhache

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dysoxylum magnificum 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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