Campnosperma auriculatum
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Campnosperma auriculatum

Campnosperma auriculatum

Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
0/5

Safety & Hazards

The sap from the wood, which is known as 'terentang oil', can be harmful to people[1, 2]. It can cause quite severe skin irritation[1].

Cultivation Details

HabitEvergreen Tree
Growth—

Species in this genus are generally strongly light demanding even when young, and regenerate more abundantly in more open or disturbed habitats[1]. A dioecious species, both male and female forms need to be grown if fruit and seed are required[1].

Propagation

Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Campnosperma+auriculatum>

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

  1. [1]Flora Malesiana Series 1 — Various · Nationaal Herbarium Nederiand, Universiteit Leiden branch · http://www.archive.org ↩︎A massive treatment of the plants of the Malaysian Archipelago. Much of it has been made available to download from the Internet
  2. [2]Plants of Southeast Asia — http://www.asianplant.net/ ↩︎Excellent site with brief information on the plant, its range, habitat and uses, plus phots of specimens, close-ops of flowers and leaves etc,
  3. [3]Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak Vols 1 - 6 — Soepadmo E.; Saw L.G.; Chung R.C.K. (Editors) · Forest Research Institute Malaysia; Kuala Lumpur. · 2002 · ISBN 983-2181-27-5 ↩︎A flora of the woody plants of Sabah and Sarawak on the island of Borneo, often giving details of plant uses.
  4. [4]Food resources and changing patterns of resource use among the the Lundayeh of the Ulu Padas, Sabah — Hoare A. · Borneo Research Council; Phillips, Maine. · 2003 ↩︎An article on the foods used by the Lundayeh people in Sabah, Indonesia.
  5. [5]Timber Notes - Light Hardwoods VII (Sentang, Sepetir, Sesendok, Terap, Terentang) — Gan K. S.; Choo K. T.; Lim S. C. · Timber Technology Centre, FRIM; Kuala Lumpur. · 1999 · https://info.frim.gov.my/infocenter/booksonline/ttb/TTBno17.pdf · ISBN 139-258 ↩︎An excellent series of leaflets, this one gives information on the wood of several species of light hardwoods. It can be downloaded as a PDF document from the Internet.