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Madhuca crassipes

Madhuca crassipes is a large tropical forest tree from Sumatra and Borneo, native to swamps and forests, that can reach 40 metres tall. It is a timber-scale species rather than a garden plant, so it is grown mainly in tropical forestry or botanic collections.

Family
Sapotaceae (Sapot family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist, as it naturally grows in swampy ground.
Soil
Moist, fertile, well-drained to waterlogged forest soils.
Temperature
22-32 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Sumatera, Borneo
Climate
wet tropical

About

Madhuca crassipes is a plant in the family Sapotaceae. The specific epithet crassipes means 'thick foot or stalk', referring to the fruit stalk.

Where it grows

Madhuca crassipes is native to Sumatra and Borneo. Its habitat is swamps and forests to 1,000 m (3,000 ft) altitude.

Other Madhuca plants

Madhuca aristulata · Madhuca barbata · Madhuca betis · Madhuca boerlageana · Madhuca borneensis · Madhuca bourdillonii · Madhuca brochidodroma · Madhuca burckiana · Madhuca calcicola · Madhuca cheongiana · Madhuca costulata · Madhuca cuprea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Madhuca crassipes 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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