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Palaquium leiocarpum is a large forest tree from Southeast Asia, growing up to 30 m tall, that is not normally grown as a houseplant. It needs warm, humid, wet tropical conditions and is best known in its native swamp and dipterocarp forests.
Palaquium leiocarpum is a tree in the family Sapotaceae. The specific epithet leiocarpum means 'smooth fruit'.
Palaquium leiocarpum is native to Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Sulawesi and possibly Sumatra. Its habitat is mixed swamp forest, mixed dipterocarp forest and kerangas forest.
[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 Palaquium leiocarpum 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.
