Javanese bishopwood
ನೀಲಿசோழவேங்கைചോലവേങ്ങ
Bischofia javanica Blume
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 12 m
- wide
- 9.1 m
Phyllanthaceae
Formerly Andrachne trifoliata, Bischofia leptopoda, Bischofia oblongifolia, Bischofia roeperiana, and 5 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to PacificKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 9.1 m to 15 mRead from UF/IFAS Extension, one source
- Spread
- 7.6 m to 11 mRead from UF/IFAS Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from UF/IFAS Extension, one source
Not known yet: light, water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (6)
- Simplified Chinese
- 赤木, 万年青树, 秋枫
- Chinese
- 重阳木, 茄苳, 秋枫
- Portuguese
- biscófia, cedro-de-java
- Tamil
- சோழவேங்கை
- Kannada
- ನೀಲಿ
- Malayalam
- ചോലവേങ്ങ
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- UF/IFAS Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Bischofia javanica (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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