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Toona calantas
Also called Philippine Mahogany, Kalantas
Philippine cedar (Toona calantas, also called kalantas) is a large forest tree of the mahogany family that can reach about 25 m. It is grown mainly for its timber and for reforestation, and is not a common garden or houseplant.
Toona calantas is a species of tree in the mahogany family. It is found in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand. It is threatened by habitat loss. It is commonly known as kalantas (also spelled calantas), lanipga (in Visayan and Bikol), ample (in Batanes), bantinan (in Cagayan and Mountain Province), danupra (in Zambales and Ilocos Norte), Philippine cedar, or Philippine mahogany (although the latter is also applied to members of the unrelated genus Shorea).
Generally scattered all over the Philippines particularly in the Balabac group of islands, the kalantas tree can be found in the hills of a forest situated in low to medium altitudes. The wood of the tree is used for making boxes, furniture or plywood. Kalantas has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as Data Deficient but it was reported that kalantas is exhausted due to logging and kaingin (a Tagalog term for slash-and-burn). Reforestation efforts have been done in the Philippines and the kalantas tree is included in these efforts. One of the efforts were done by the Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources during the term of then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo where the president herself planted a seedling of a kalantas tree, which is the favored tree promoted by the president.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Toona calantas 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.
