Mesua ferrea · Kew POWO · Kew Plants of the World Online
Species
VulnerableSPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderMalpighiales
- FamilyCalophyllaceae
Common Name: sapwood
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 426
- With media
- 390
- Family
- Clusiaceae
- Collections
- UTEP, RSA, MICH, NY, US, IND
- Recorded in
- Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, Jamaica, Thailand, Nepal, Panama
Wikidata facts
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- Commons category
- Mesua ferrea
- taxon name
- Mesua ferrea
- taxon rank
- species
- taxon common name
- 铁力木花
- short name
- M. ferrea
- taxon range
- Myanmar
- external data available at URL
- www.gbif.org/dataset/93725bf2-6ada-47f9-bd5e-0e679e3d245e
- IUCN conservation status
- Vulnerable
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Encyclopedic overview
Mesua ferrea, the Ceylon ironwood, or cobra saffron, is a species in the family Calophyllaceae native to the Indomalayan realm. This slow-growing tree is named after the heaviness and hardness of its timber. It is widely cultivated as an ornamental for its graceful shape, grayish-green foliage with a striking pink to red flush of drooping young leaves, and its large, fragrant white flowers. It is the national tree of Sri Lanka, as well as the state tree of Mizoram and state flower of Tripura in India.
Vernacular names
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mesua ferrea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.