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In Singapore: 小盘木 (Native to Singapore, Vulnerable)
Microdesmis caseariifolia is a shrub or small tree from wet tropical Asia, found from Bangladesh and Myanmar through Southeast Asia to Malesia. It is a forest plant rarely grown in gardens, so care notes are for a warm, humid, tropical setting.
Microdesmis caseariifolia is a plant in the family Pandaceae. It is found in Bangladesh, Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam. Leaf colour is green. Flower colour is yellow.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Microdesmis caseariifolia 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.
