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Madhuca kingiana

Madhuca kingiana is a forest tree of the Sapotaceae family, native to Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo, growing up to 20 metres tall. It is a rainforest canopy species rarely grown in gardens, so care notes apply mainly to young plants in warm, humid conditions.

Family
Sapotaceae (Sapot family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during growth and let the top layer dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich mix with good organic content.
Temperature
22–32 °C; protect below 15 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
W. Malesia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Madhuca kingiana is a tree in the family Sapotaceae. It is named for the botanist George King.

Where it grows

Madhuca kingiana is native to Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo. Its habitat is lowland mixed dipterocarp forest to 1,800 m (5,900 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 kingiana 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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