Skip to content

Heritiera fomes

Plants

Family: Malvaceae · Genus: Heritiera

Heritiera fomes

Monster eagle · cc_by_sa

About

Heritiera fomes is a species of mangrove tree in the family Malvaceae. Its common names include sunder, sundri, jekanazo and pinlekanazo. It is the dominant mangrove tree species of the Sundarbans of Bangladesh and India, and comprises about 70% of the trees in the area. H. fomes is a major timber-producing tree. It is threatened by over-harvesting, water diversions in the Ganges Basin, fluctuations in salinity due to upstream and coastal development and top dying disease. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed it as being "endangered".

Summary from Wikipedia

View full profile

Growing details and traits for Heritiera fomes in the Library.

No cultivars in the Library yet — the full profile above covers the species itself.