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Horsfieldia crassifolia is a tree in the nutmeg family (Myristicaceae) native to wet tropical forests of Peninsular Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra and Borneo. It is a forest tree rarely grown in gardens, so care notes below are general guidance for tropical trees of this genus.
Horsfieldia crassifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Myristicaceae. It is a tree native to Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, and Borneo.
The species was first described as Myristica crassifolia by Joseph Dalton Hooker and Thomas Thomson in 1855. In 1897 Otto Warburg placed the species in genus Horsfieldia as H. crassifolia.
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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 Horsfieldia crassifolia 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.
