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Madhuca engkikiana

Madhuca engkikiana is a large forest tree in the Sapotaceae family, endemic to Sabah in northern Borneo, reaching up to 25 m tall. It is not a garden or houseplant, so care guidance is limited to what suits a tropical tree.

Family
Sapotaceae (Sapot family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during establishment and avoid waterlogging; it grows in wet tropical forest.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich tropical forest soil.
Temperature
22–32 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
N. Borneo
Climate
wet tropical

About

Madhuca engkikiana is a tree in the family Sapotaceae, native to Borneo. It is named for the Indonesian botanist Engkik Soepadmo.

Where it grows

Madhuca engkikiana is endemic to Borneo, where is it confined to Sabah. Its habitat is dipterocarp forests to elevations of 1,910 m (6,270 ft).

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 crassipes

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Madhuca engkikiana 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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