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Xylopia ferruginea

In Singapore: Stilted Antoi, Antoi Jangkang, Jangkang Bukit (Native to Singapore, Endangered)

Xylopia ferruginea is a medium-sized forest tree from the custard apple family, native to Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo, reaching about 24 m tall. It is a rainforest timber and landscape tree rather than a houseplant, so care here is for a wet tropical garden.

Family
Annonaceae (Annon family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist in the growing season and do not let it dry out, especially when young.
Soil
Moist, well-drained, humus-rich soil.
Temperature
22–32 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Pen. Thailand to W. Malesia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Xylopia ferruginea is a species of flowering plant in the family Annonaceae. It is a tree native to Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo. It is a medium-sized forest tree which can reach 80 feet (24 meters) in height.

The word ferruginea is derived from the Latin word "ferrugo" ("rust"), and refers to the rusty colored hairs on the underside of the leaves.

Other Xylopia plants

Ethiopian pepper

[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 Xylopia ferruginea 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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