- Plants
- ›Vascular Plants
- ›flowering plants
- ›Dicots
- ›Nances, Willows, and Allies
- ›calophyllum family
- ›Calophyllum
Alexandrian Laurel
Calophyllum inophyllum
Calophyllum inophyllum is a large evergreen, commonly called Alexandrian laurel balltree, beach calophyllum, beach touriga, beautyleaf, Borneo-mahogany, Indian doomba oiltree, Indian-laurel, laurelwood, red poon, satin touriga, and tacamahac-tree. It is native from East Africa, southern coastal India to Malesia and Australia.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the old herbals & bestiaries
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.469
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.693
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.693
Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.296
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Calophyllum inophyllum in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 159698.