Alexandrian laurel
ಪುನ್ನಾಗபுன்னை மரம்పొన్న చెట్టు
Calophyllum inophyllum L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 19 m
- wide
- —
Calophyllaceae
Also called Alexandrian Laurel, Beach Calophyllum, Borneo Mahogany
Formerly Balsamaria inophyllum, Calophyllum bintagor, Calophyllum blumei, Calophyllum wakamatsui
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
- Kenya to Mozambique, W. Indian Ocean, Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to PacificKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 8.0 m to 30 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (8)
- Chinese
- 瓊崖海棠, 红厚壳, 胡桐
- Simplified Chinese
- 君子树, 呀拉菩, 海棠木
- Tamil
- புன்னை மரம், புன்னை
- Telugu
- పొన్న చెట్టు, పొన్న, పున్నాగ
- Kannada
- ಪುನ್ನಾಗ
- Marathi
- उंडी
- Bangla
- পুন্নাগ
- Malayalam
- പുന്നാകം, പുന്നക്ക, പുന്നാഗം
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- 3D model: Calophyllum inophyllum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.