Eden

Penang Botanic Gardens Plant Collection

Alstonia angustifolia Wall. ex A.DC. (APOCYNACEAE)

Posted at — Nov 13, 2019
Pulai Peninpu Paya

Description

Tree to 50 m, diameter to 70 cm, base fluted or with buttresses. Leaves in whorls of 3 (rarely 4), obovate. Flowers in dense clusters, fragrant, corolla pale yellow, rusty pubescent outside. Fruits in paired follicles.

Ecology

In lowland to hill dipterocarp forests to 800 m altitude, often in seasonally swampy forest, sometimes in peat forest.

Distribution

Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Borneo.