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Palaquium quercifolium is a large forest tree from Southeast Asia, reaching up to 30 metres, grown mainly in its native tropical forests rather than as a garden or houseplant. It needs warm, humid, wet-tropical conditions and consistently moist soil.
Palaquium quercifolium is a tree in the family Sapotaceae. The specific epithet quercifolium refers to the leaves' similarity to the genus Quercus.
Palaquium quercifolium is native to Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi and Ambon. Its habitat is lowland mixed dipterocarp forest and also swamp forest.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Palaquium quercifolium 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.
