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In Singapore: Spike Oak, Berangan Landak, Berangan Padi, Empening Gajah, Kelempening, Mempening Bangkas, Mesekam (Native to Singapore, Critically Endangered)
Lithocarpus elegans is a large evergreen forest tree of the beech and oak family, reaching up to 30 m, grown mainly for timber and wild-collected acorns rather than as a garden plant. It thrives in warm, humid, wet tropical conditions, so it is not practical for most home growers outside the tropics.
Lithocarpus elegans is a flowering plant in the beech family Fagaceae. The specific epithet elegans means 'elegant', referring to the acorns and cupules.
Lithocarpus elegans is native to the eastern Indian subcontinent (Bangladesh, northeastern India, Bhutan and Nepal), Indo-China, and western and central Malesia (Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and Sulawesi). Its habitat is dipterocarp to lower montane forests up to 1,500 m (5,000 ft) elevation.
[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 Lithocarpus elegans 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.
