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Hopea mengarawan is a tall rainforest tree in the Dipterocarp family, reaching up to 45 metres in the wild, and it is not a common garden plant. It is native to lowland rainforest in Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Sumatra, and is listed as Vulnerable due to logging and land clearance.
Hopea mengarawan, formerly Hopea mengerawan, is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree native to Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, and Sumatra. It is a tall tree which can grow up to 45 metres tall. It grows in lowland mixed dipterocarp rain forest, growing on the edges of swamps and on hillsides and ridges, on poorly drained, poor sandy, and clayey soils. It is threatened by habitat loss from timber logging and expansion of agriculture, plantations, and settlements. The IUCN Red List assesses the species as Vulnerable.
The species was described by Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel in 1861.
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[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hopea mengarawan 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.
