Burseraceae FAMILY Least Concern

Santiria tomentosa

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitTree

Growth—

Usually found in the wild on sandy soils, but also on clay and occasionally on limestone^[1]. This species is usually dioecious, in which case both male and female forms need to be grown if fruit and seed are required, but there are also reports of monoecious trees where the flowers of both sexes can be found on the same tree^[2].

Propagation

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

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

[1]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,
[2]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
[3]IUCN Red List of Threatened Species — http://www.iucnredlist.org/ ↩︎A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat.
[4]Tropical Timbers of the World. Ag. Handbook No. 607. — Chudnoff. Martin. · USDA Forest Service. Wisconsin. · 1984 ↩︎Terse details on the properties of the wood of almost 400 species of trees from the Tropics.
[5]Tropix 7 — CIRAD · http://tropix.cirad.fr/en ↩︎An on-line guide to the timbers of 245 species of trees.