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In Singapore: Nang Daeng, Mempisang, Gopeng, Maingay Mitrephora, 山蕉 (Naturalised in Singapore)
Mitrephora maingayi is a tree of the custard apple family (Annonaceae), reaching about 20 m, found in lowland and lower mountain forests of Southeast Asia and Bangladesh. It is a forest tree rarely grown in gardens, so its care needs are largely unknown.
Mitrephora maingayi is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, Laos, Peninsular Malaysia, Myanmar, Sumatra, and Vietnam. Joseph Hooker and Thomas Thomson, the British botanists who first formally described the species, named it in honor of Alexander Carroll Maingay, the British botanist who collected the specimen they examined.
It has been observed growing in lowlands or lower mountainous habitats at elevations up to 1,200 meters (3,900 ft).
Mitregenin, an acetogenin, has been isolated from its leaves and twigs. Several members of the acetogenin family of compounds have neurotoxic activity.
[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 Mitrephora maingayi 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.
