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Terminalia calamansanai

In Singapore: Mentalun, Mentalun Batu, Batalong, Jelawai Mentalum, Philippine Almond, Kedah Tree (Grown in Singapore)

Terminalia calamansanai
Photo: Brandis, Dietrich, Sir, 1824-1907, No restrictions

Terminalia calamansanai is a large tropical forest tree in the Combretaceae family, native across Southeast Asia and New Guinea. It is a timber tree of wet lowland forest and is not a practical garden or houseplant.

Family
Combretaceae (Combret family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Needs consistent moisture in its native wet tropical climate; cultivation details are not well documented.
Soil
Moist, well-drained forest soils, typically lowland loams.
Temperature
Warm wet tropical conditions; likely unsuited to frost or cold below about 10 °C.
Native range
Bangladesh to Papuasia
Climate
wet tropical

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Terminalia calamansanai, also spelled Terminalia calamansanay (unresolved name), is a species of plant in the family Combretaceae. It has a large range in SE Asia, from Bangladesh to New Guinea.

Other Terminalia plants

Arjun · Terminalia australis · Myrobalan · Black Olive · Tropical-almond · Myrobalan · Terminalia dhofarica · Indian Laurel · Kakadu Plum · Ivory Coast almond · Terminalia macroptera · Terminalia mantaly

[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Terminalia calamansanai 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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