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Hopea ferrea

Hopea ferrea
Photo: Raffi Kojian, CC BY-SA 3.0

Hopea ferrea is a large forest tree from mainland Southeast Asia, grown in its native tropical range for timber rather than as a garden or houseplant. It needs a warm, humid, wet tropical climate and is not practical as a container plant.

Family
Dipterocarpaceae (Dipterocarp family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Needs regular moisture in its native wet tropical climate; water consistently in the first years and keep soil from drying out.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile forest soils.
Temperature
Warm tropical conditions; protect from frost and temperatures below about 10 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Indo-China to N. Pen. Malaysia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Hopea ferrea is a species of tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is native to Cambodia, Laos, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.

It is the provincial tree of Thailand's Amnat Charoen Province.

Other Hopea plants

Dalingdingan · Hopea cordifolia · Hopea helferi · Hopea mengarawan · Hopea nutans · Ironwood · Hopea pubescens · Hopea sangal · Hopea wightiana · Hopea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hopea ferrea 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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