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Vateria copallifera
White Dammar is a large evergreen rainforest tree from southern India and Sri Lanka, grown for its resin and timber. It is a tree of wet lowland forest, so it needs warmth, high rainfall and humidity to thrive.
Vateria copallifera is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree native to Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu in southern India. In Sri Lanka it grows in the lowland evergreen rain forests of southwestern Sri Lanka on river banks and along rivulets.
Fruits have a bitter taste. Traditionally people in the surrounding villages of the tree growing areas collect fruits for preparation of various food items including one of famous food called 'Hal Guti'. A preparation made from this tree is used in preserving traditional manuscripts written on palm leaves.
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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.
