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Hopea latifolia

Hopea latifolia is a large canopy tree of the dipterocarp family, native to wet tropical forests of Peninsular Thailand, Malaysia and Borneo, reaching up to 40 m. It is a forest timber tree rather than a garden or houseplant, so care notes below are for tropical climates only.

Family
Dipterocarpaceae (Dipterocarp family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep soil evenly moist when young; mature trees in forest need no supplementary watering.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich forest soil.
Temperature
22–32 °C; protect below 15 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Pen. Thailand to Pen. Malaysia, Borneo
Climate
wet tropical

About

Hopea latifolia is a tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae. The specific epithet latifolia means "wide leaf".

Where it grows

Hopea latifolia is native to Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo. Its habitat is mixed dipterocarp forests, to elevations of 400 m (1,300 ft).

Other Hopea plants

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 latifolia 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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