#1830 most planted
Melicope
Melicope
17
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
1
city
2.8 yr
median age (100% have a planting date)
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Melicope is a genus of about 240 species of shrubs and trees in the Rutaceae family. These plants typically feature simple or trifoliate leaves arranged in opposite pairs, flowers in panicles with four sepals and petals, and fruit forming up to four follicles. Native to tropical regions from the Hawaiian Islands to Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, they thrive in wet tropical climates.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 170.01%2.8 yr—
Traits
- Water needs
- High
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
- Central Range Papuan montane rain forests
- Northern New Guinea lowland rain and freshwater swamp forests
- Northern New Guinea montane rain forests
- Southern New Guinea freshwater swamp forests
- Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests
- Andaman Islands rain forests
- Borneo lowland rain forests
- Borneo montane rain forests
- Borneo peat swamp forests
- Myanmar coastal rain forests
- Northern Thailand-Laos moist deciduous forests
- Northern Vietnam lowland rain forests
- Southwest Borneo freshwater swamp forests
- Tenasserim-South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests
Mangroves
- Myanmar Coast mangroves
Other Melicope in the catalogue
2 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.