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Pink Mahogany

Dysoxylum oppositifolium

Family
Meliaceae (Meli family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Malesia to N. Australia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Dysoxylum oppositifolium is a species of tree in the family Meliaceae. The specific epithet oppositifolium is from the Latin meaning 'opposite leaf', referring to the leaves being on opposite sides of the twig.

Where it grows

Dysoxylum oppositifolium is found in Borneo, the Philippines, New Guinea and northeast Australia. Its habitat is rain forests from 300 metres (1,000 ft) 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 · Dysoxylum magnificum · White Cedar · Dysoxylum pachyrhache

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dysoxylum oppositifolium by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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