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Hopea sangal is a large canopy tree from the dipterocarp family, native to tropical Asia and grown mainly in forests rather than as a garden or houseplant. It is not typically cultivated, so care advice here is limited.
Hopea sangal is a tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is native to tropical Asia.
Hopea sangal is native to Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, Borneo, Java and Bali. Its habitat is dipterocarp forests, sometimes by rivers, to elevations of 500 m (1,600 ft). In the Kalimantan region of Borneo, ectomycorrhizal (symbiotic) relationships with this species have been reported.
Dalingdingan · Hopea cordifolia · Hopea ferrea · Hopea helferi · Hopea mengarawan · Hopea nutans · Ironwood · Hopea pubescens · 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 sangal 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.
