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Gonystylus nobilis

Gonystylus nobilis is a tall rainforest tree from Sarawak on Borneo, grown only in its native forest and not as a garden or houseplant. It is listed as Endangered mainly because its forest habitat is being cleared for palm oil.

Family
Thymelaeaceae (Thymelae family)
Grows as
Tree, Palm
Temperature
Wet tropical climate; cultivation details not well documented.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Borneo (Sarawak)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Gonystylus nobilis is a species of plant in the family Thymelaeaceae. It is a tree endemic to Borneo where it is confined to Sarawak. The species has been assessed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List due to conversion of its forest habitat to palm oil plantations.

Other Gonystylus plants

Gonystylus affinis · Gonystylus areolatus · Gonystylus augescens · Gonystylus bancanus · Gonystylus borneensis · Gonystylus brunnescens · Gonystylus calophylloides · Gonystylus calophyllus · Gonystylus consanguineus · Gonystylus costalis · Gonystylus decipiens · Gonystylus eximius

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gonystylus nobilis 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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