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Helicia nilagirica is a 5 to 15 m tree in the Protea family, native from Nepal and northeast India through Mainland Southeast Asia to Yunnan, China. It is grown mainly for reforestation, wood and firewood, and is a pioneer species in disturbed wet forest.
Helicia nilagirica is a tree of the Proteaceae family. It grows from Thailand across Mainland Southeast Asia to Yunnan, Zhōngguó/China and over to Nepal. It is a source of wood (including firewood), a pioneer reafforestation taxa, and an ethnomedicinal plant.
The species is found from Thailand, across Mainland Southeast Asia to Zhōngguó/China and Nepal. Countries and regions that the plant occurs in are: Thailand; Cambodia; Vietnam; Zhōngguó/China (Yunnan); Laos; Myanmar; India (Assam, Sikkim, Meghalaya); Bhutan; and Nepal.
The tree is used as a pioneer planting in reforestation work in Thailand. In Cambodia, the wood is used for temporary buildings, while the small twigs and branches are a source of firewood. In the wet forests of Maghalaya, the straight trunk of the tree is used to make handles for tools, including the popular coal digger. A study of the complete chloroplast genome suggest that the plant could be useful as rootstock or gene donor for the nut-crop tree Macadamia integrifolia.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Helicia nilagirica 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.
