Landscape | Best suited for ornamental use due to the graceful shape and attractive foliage and flowers. |
Cultivation | Best grown in full sun to partial shade with well-drained soil. |
Notable Specimens | Sakunothayan Botanic Garden, Wang Tong, Phitsanulok, Thailand
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Habitat | Wet tropical areas. |
Bark/Stem Description | Bark brown with irregularly large flaky peelings. |
Flower/Leaf Bud Description | The flowers are 4 – 7.5 cm diameter, with four white petals and a centre of numerous yellow stamens. |
Leaf Description | Simple, narrow, oblong, oblong to lanceolate. Leaves are 7 – 15 cm long. |
Flower Description | Large and fragrant. |
Fruit Description | Wrinkled when ripe. Resembles a chestnut. Berry, ovoid to globose, apiculate, striate, 1-4 seeded.
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Colour Description | Bark is ashy grey. Foliage is blue-grey to dark green. Flowers are white. |