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Macaranga bancana, the common mahang, is a small pioneer tree from the spurge family that colonises disturbed forest in Southeast Asia. It is not a common garden or houseplant, so care advice here is general and aimed at growing it under tropical conditions.
Macaranga bancana is a tree in the Euphorbiaceae family native to Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, and Thailand. It has the common name common mahang, and is considered a successful pioneer species.
Macaranga bancana is commonly found in southeast Asia, particularly in Malaysia.
[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 Macaranga bancana 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.
