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Hopea dryobalanoides is a large rainforest tree of the Dipterocarp family, native to Peninsular Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo, reaching up to 45 m tall. It is a forest timber tree rarely grown as a garden or houseplant, so care is mainly relevant to tropical arboretum or plantation settings.
Hopea dryobalanoides is a tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is native to Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo.
The species was described by Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel in 1861. The specific epithet dryobalanoides means "resembling Dryobalanops", referring to that genus of trees and particularly their leaf veins.
Hopea dryobalanoides is native to Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo. Its habitat is mixed dipterocarp forest, to elevations of 600 m (2,000 ft).
Dalingdingan · Hopea aequalis · Hopea altocollina · Hopea andersonii · Hopea apiculata · Hopea aptera · Hopea auriculata · Hopea bancana · Hopea basilanica · Hopea beccariana · Hopea bilitonensis · Hopea brachyptera
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hopea dryobalanoides 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.
