Dillenia beccariana seed

LATIN NAME: Dillenia beccariana

COMMON NAME: Dillenia

The Dillenia is a handsome, upright, evergreen tree of the warm forests, and its fine, large, oval or lance-shaped, boldly veined leaves and its large, showy, white or yellow flowers with the many fine petals, followed by the large, round, fleshy fruits, have made it a treasured and fine tree of the region. It grows as an upright, evergreen tree, reaching up to twenty metres or more, with the upright, tapering trunk bearing the alternate, large, oval or lance-shaped, pointed, boldly veined leaves and, through the warm months, the large, showy, white or yellow flowers with the many fine petals and the many fine stamens, followed by the large, round, greenish or yellowish, fleshy, many-seeded fruits. It is a species of the flowering tree in the dillenia family, and it is native to the warm forests of the south-eastern Asia, while it is prized for its large, showy flowers, and it is known as the Dillenia.

In the dillenia family it is the large-flowered tree of the warm forests, a species whose bold, white blossoms and heavy fruits are a landmark of the tropical garden.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The Dillenia appears in the forest-ecology papers of the south-eastern Asia as a fine subject of the warm forest study, and the botanists have mapped its place in the dillenia family and the regional flora. The wildlife ecologists have watched the birds, the monkeys and the forest animals come to the large, round, fleshy fruits, and the horticulturists have grown the large, showy, white flowers for the warm garden and the avenue. It is a tree of the bold, generous kind, and the growers of the warm-region flowering trees keep it in their catalogues.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

In the warm garden, the Dillenia is the large-flowered tree of the avenue. Its showy, white flowers feed the bees, its large, fleshy fruits feed the birds and the wildlife, and the glossy, evergreen crown gives the garden a deep, generous shade. It is treasured for the bold, many-petalled flowers and the impressive, boldly veined leaves, and it grows well in the rich, moist, well-drained ground of the sheltered spot. Large-flowered, boldly veined and generous.

The seeds are best sown fresh — press them into pots of rich, moist, free-draining soil at a shallow depth, keep the pots in a sheltered, half-shaded spot and never let them dry out, and the first shoots will soon push through.