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Madhuca kuchingensis

Madhuca kuchingensis is a forest tree from Borneo, named after the city of Kuching, that can reach about 20 metres tall. It is a wild tree of lowland mixed dipterocarp and kerangas forest and is rarely grown as a garden or houseplant.

Family
Sapotaceae (Sapot family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Bright indirect
Temperature
Wet tropical lowland conditions; not hardy to frost
Native range
Borneo (Sarawak)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Madhuca kuchingensis is a tree in the family Sapotaceae. It is named for the city of Kuching in Borneo.

Where it grows

Madhuca kuchingensis is endemic to Borneo. Its habitat is lowland mixed dipterocarp and kerangas forests from 90–1,350 m (300–4,400 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 kuchingensis 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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