Meliaceae FAMILY
Dysoxylum pettigrewianum
Dysoxylum pettigrewianum
Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Dysoxylum pettigrewianum is a tree that can grow up to 35 metres tall. The bole can be up to 120cm in diameter with buttresses up to 2.5 metres high and 2 metres outwards[ 451 Title Flora Malesiana Series 1 Publication Author Various Website http://www.archive.org Publisher Nationaal Herbarium Nederiand, Universiteit Leiden branch Year 0 ISBN Description A massive treatment of the plants of the Malaysian Archipelago. Much of it has been made available to download from the Internet ]. The tree is harvested from the wild for its wood.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeSoutheast Asia - eastern Indonesia to New Guinea, northeast Australia and the Solomon Islands.
HabitatWell developed lowland and upland rain forest, but is more frequent, and reaches its best development, in lowland rain forest particularly on soils derived from basalt; at elevations up to 800 metres in northeast Australia[ 713 Title Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Publication Author Website http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/cd-keys/rfk/index.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An online resource giving botanical information, and a little bit about plant usage, for over 2,700 species of plants found in the Australian rainforest. ].