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Palaquium cochleariifolium

Palaquium cochleariifolium is a tall tree from Borneo, growing up to 30 m, found in swamps and kerangas forest. It is a wet tropical forest tree and not a typical garden or houseplant, so growing it needs warm, humid, moist conditions.

Family
Sapotaceae (Sapot family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist, as it naturally grows in swamp and wet forest settings.
Soil
Moist, acidic, free-draining but water-retentive mix, such as peaty or forest-type soil.
Temperature
22–32 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Borneo
Climate
wet tropical

About

Palaquium cochleariifolium is a tree in the family Sapotaceae. The specific epithet cochleariifolium means 'spoon-shaped leaves'.

Where it grows

Palaquium cochleariifolium is endemic to Borneo. Its habitat is in swamps and kerangas forests.

Other Palaquium plants

Palaquium bataanense · Palaquium beccarianum · Palaquium bourdillonii · Palaquium calophyllum · Palaquium canaliculatum · Palaquium crassifolium · Palaquium cryptocariifolium · Palaquium dasyphyllum · Palaquium decurrens · Palaquium edenii · Palaquium elegans · Palaquium ellipticum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Palaquium cochleariifolium 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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