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Sandoricum beccarianum

Sandoricum beccarianum is a large forest tree from Southeast Asia, growing up to 35 metres tall, found in peat swamp forests near sea level. It is not a garden or houseplant, so care needs apply mainly to tropical planting in wet, peaty conditions.

Family
Meliaceae (Meli family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist, as it naturally grows in waterlogged peat swamp habitat.
Soil
Moist, peaty or organic-rich soil with good fertility.
Temperature
Warm tropical conditions; frost-intolerant and unsuitable below about 10 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Pen. Thailand to W. Malesia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Sandoricum beccarianum is a tree in the family Meliaceae. It is named for the Italian botanist Odoardo Beccari.

Where it grows

Sandoricum beccarianum grows naturally in Thailand, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo. Its habitat is peatswamp forests near sea-level.

Other Sandoricum plants

Sandoricum borneense · Sandoricum caudatum · Sandoricum dasyneuron · Red Santol · Sandoricum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sandoricum beccarianum 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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