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Planchonia brevistipitata

Planchonia brevistipitata is a small tree of lowland and riverside forests in Borneo, growing up to about 15 m tall. Little is documented about cultivation, so it is a forest species rather than a garden plant.

Family
Lecythidaceae (Brazil-nut family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during establishment; it is a wet-tropical forest tree.
Soil
Moist, well-drained, fertile soil similar to lowland forest soils
Temperature
20–32 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
NE. Borneo
Climate
wet tropical

About

Planchonia brevistipitata grows as a small tree up to 15 metres (49 ft) tall. The bark is greyish to brown. The specific epithet brevistipitata is from the Latin meaning 'short stalk', referring to the flowers and fruit. Its habitat is riverine and lowland mixed dipterocarp forest. P. brevistipitata is endemic to Borneo.

Other Planchonia plants

Billygoat Plum · Planchonia grandis · Planchonia valida · Planchonia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Planchonia brevistipitata 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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