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Hopea megacarpa

Hopea megacarpa is a forest tree of the Dipterocarp family from Borneo, growing up to 15 m tall in the understorey of mixed dipterocarp forest. It is a wild timber species rarely grown outside its native range, so care is mostly of interest to botanists and arboretum growers.

Family
Dipterocarpaceae (Dipterocarp family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep the root zone evenly moist in the growing season and avoid waterlogging, as it grows in humid tropical forest.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich forest soil or a loam-based mix.
Temperature
22–32 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
W. & S. Borneo
Climate
wet tropical

About

Hopea megacarpa is a tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae, native to Borneo. The specific epithet megacarpa means "big fruit".

Where it grows

Hopea megacarpa is endemic to Borneo. Its habitat is mixed dipterocarp forests.

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 megacarpa 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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