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Palaquium ridleyi is a large forest tree from Southeast Asia that grows up to 30 metres tall in wet tropical lowlands. It is not a houseplant or garden plant and is grown only in its native habitat, so the care points below apply to tropical conditions rather than home growing.
Palaquium ridleyi is a tree in the family Sapotaceae. It is named for the English botanist Henry Nicholas Ridley.
Palaquium ridleyi is found from Vietnam through Malesia to New Guinea. Its habitat is peat swamp and kerangas forests.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Palaquium ridleyi 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.
