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Hopea beccariana

Hopea beccariana
Photo: Patrice78500, Public domain

Hopea beccariana is a large forest tree from the Dipterocarp family, native to Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo. It is a timber tree of tropical forests rather than a garden or houseplant, and is not typically grown for ornament.

Family
Dipterocarpaceae (Dipterocarp family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during establishment in its native wet tropical climate.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich forest soils.
Temperature
22–32 °C; protect from frost
How easy
Hard
Native range
Pen. Thailand to Sumatera, Borneo
Climate
wet tropical

About

Hopea beccariana is a species of tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is named after the Italian botanist Odoardo Beccari, and is known in Singapore as merawan batu.

Where it grows

Hopea beccariana is native to Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo. Its habitat is in dipterocarp forests and on coastal hills, at elevations of 150–1,200 m (500–3,900 ft).

Other Hopea plants

Dalingdingan · Hopea aequalis · Hopea altocollina · Hopea andersonii · Hopea apiculata · Hopea aptera · Hopea auriculata · Hopea bancana · Hopea basilanica · Hopea bilitonensis · Hopea brachyptera · Hopea bracteata

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hopea beccariana 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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