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Engelhardia serrata

Engelhardia serrata
Photo: Sixtus, Ernst Philipp, CC0

Engelhardia serrata is a tree in the walnut family, native to wet tropical and subtropical forests from Assam through Southeast Asia to southwestern Yunnan, China. It is grown mainly as a shade or forest tree and is not a common garden or houseplant.

Family
Juglandaceae (Walnut family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during the growing season and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Fertile, well-drained loam or forest-type soil with plenty of organic matter.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Assam to China (SW. Yunnan) and Malesia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Engelhardia serrata is a species of tree in the family Juglandaceae. It is native to Indo-China, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi, the Philippines, and southwestern Yunnan Province in south-central China.

Other Engelhardia plants

Engelhardia apoensis · Engelhardia danumensis · Engelhardia hainanensis · Engelhardia kinabaluensis · Engelhardia mendalomensis · Engelhardia mersingensis · Engelhardia rigida · Golden Malay Beam · Engelhardia spicata · Engelhardia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Engelhardia serrata 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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