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Madhuca hirtiflora

Madhuca hirtiflora is a tree in the Sapotaceae family, native to Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo, where it grows up to 15 m tall in lowland forest. It is a forest timber-type tree rather than a common garden or houseplant, so it is grown mainly in tropical arboreta or by specialist collectors.

Family
Sapotaceae (Sapot family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep soil consistently moist during establishment and reduce slightly once established, as in its humid tropical forest habitat.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile, humus-rich soil.
Temperature
22–32 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
W. Malesia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Madhuca hirtiflora is a plant in the family Sapotaceae. The specific epithet hirtiflora means 'hairy flowers'.

Where it grows

Madhuca hirtiflora is native to Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo. Its habitat is lowland mixed dipterocarp forest from 50–700 m (200–2,300 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 crassipes

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Madhuca hirtiflora 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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