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Palaquium ravii

Palaquium ravii
Photo: A.P. Madhavan, CC BY 4.0

Palaquium ravii is a large evergreen tree from the Western Ghats of India, endangered in the wild and rarely grown outside its native range. It is not a practical garden or houseplant, and care notes below are for cultivation in suitable tropical conditions only.

Family
Sapotaceae (Sapot family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly during the growing season and let the top of the soil dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile loamy soil.
Temperature
20–35 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
India (Kerala. Tamil Nadu)
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Palaquium ravii is a species of tree in the family Sapotaceae. It is endemic to the Western Ghats mountains and native to Kerala and Tamil Nadu in India.

Where it grows

The species is endemic to the Anamalai Hills of the southern Western Ghats mountain ranges in India. It is listed as Endangered in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Other Palaquium plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Palaquium ravii 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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