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Palaquium ellipticum is a tall, buttressed evergreen forest tree of the Western Ghats in southwestern India, growing up to about 35 m. It is a canopy tree of low and medium elevation forests rather than a garden or houseplant.
Palaquium ellipticum is a tree in the family Sapotaceae. The species is endemic to the Western Ghats of southwestern India. It is a common canopy tree in low and medium elevation evergreen forests up to 1500 m.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Palaquium ellipticum 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.
