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Ironwood

Hopea odorata

In Singapore: Chengal Pasir, Merawan Siput Jantan, Chengal Kampong, Cengal Pasir, Cengal Pulau, Telshur, Takhian-yai, Ironwood (Cultivated in Singapore)

1 NParks heritage tree in Singapore: Found in Singapore Botanic Gardens, Lawn XA

Ironwood
Photo: Silviculture at Vietnamese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0

Hopea odorata is a large timber tree in the Dipterocarp family, native to seasonal tropical forests of South and Southeast Asia, growing up to 45 m tall. It is grown as a shade tree and is not a typical garden or houseplant.

Family
Dipterocarpaceae (Dipterocarp family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while young, then rely mostly on seasonal rainfall once established.
Soil
Deep, well-drained loamy soil; tolerates riverside alluvial soils.
Temperature
22–35 °C; protect from frost, which it cannot tolerate.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Bangladesh to Pen. Malaysia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Hopea odorata is a species of tree in the plant family Dipterocarpaceae. It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Other Hopea plants

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

[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 odorata 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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