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Illipe Butter Tree

Madhuca neriifolia

Illipe Butter Tree
Photo: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 3.0

Madhuca neriifolia is a tropical tree in the sapote family, native to southern India and Sri Lanka, grown mainly as a shade or ornamental tree in warm, dry-season climates. It is not a common houseplant and needs a warm, frost-free site with a clear dry season.

Family
Sapotaceae (Sapot family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then reduce water during the natural dry season.
Soil
Well-drained loamy soil; tolerates a range of soil types.
Temperature
20–35 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
S. India, Sri Lanka
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Madhuca neriifolia is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is native to Sri Lanka and India's Western Ghats.

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 neriifolia 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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