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Lepisanthes multijuga

Lepisanthes multijuga is a small tropical forest tree or shrub from Borneo that bears small, edible, sweet yellow to orange fruits. It is a wild forest fruit tree, not a common garden or houseplant, and grows best in warm, humid, wet tropical conditions.

Family
Sapindaceae (Soapberry & maple family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during growth and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich loam or forest-type soil.
Temperature
20–32 °C; protect from frost and temperatures below 10 °C.
How easy
Hard
Safety
Not known to be toxic
Native range
Borneo (Sabah)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Lepisanthes multijuga is a species of flowering plant, a tropical forest fruit-tree in the lychee family, that is native to Southeast Asia.

Where it grows

The species is endemic to Borneo. It occurs in mixed hill forest up to an elevation of 1,000 m.

Other Lepisanthes plants

Lepisanthes alata · Lepisanthes fruticosa · Lepisanthes rubiginosa · Lepisanthes senegalensis · Lepisanthes tetraphylla · Lepisanthes unilocularis · Lepisanthes

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lepisanthes multijuga 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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