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Manilkara kanosiensis is a large rainforest tree from Indonesia, New Guinea and nearby islands, valued as timber and listed as endangered by logging. It is not a common garden or houseplant, so growing it is mainly a matter of tropical conditions.
Manilkara kanosiensis (commonly known as torem or sawai) is a species of tree in the sapodilla family Sapotaceae. It is thinly dispersed in low-lying rainforests over a large range, from the Maluku Islands of Indonesia to New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago (New Britain and New Ireland) of Papua New Guinea. It is endangered by the furious pace of logging in its native habitat, where it is felled as timber.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Manilkara kanosiensis 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.
