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Botanical Name
| Hopea odorata Roxb. |
| Genus | Hopea |
| Family | Dipterocarpaceae |
| Distribution | This is a tree of the evergreen forests of Indochina, Burma, Thailand and the Andaman Islands which occurs also in the north of our territory. It is a well-known tree in Langkawi, Perlis, Kedah, northern Perak, Kelantan, and Terengganu. It is essentially a riparian species, rarely occurring far from streams. On the banks of the larger rivers large trees overhang the water in the manner of keruing neram (D. oblongifolius). It is cultivated as a shade tree in the villages of Kelantan and Terengganu. Although cultivated trees remains common, wild trees are now hard to find and the species is endangered in nature here.
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| Bole Characteristics | A scaly-barked Hopea up to 3.5 m girth in the peninsula; buttresses medium-sized; bole tall and clear to a good height, or bent, rough with irregular longitudinal fissures and rather numerous lenticels, becoming scaly with age, greyish in color; small exudations of white dammar may be present; crown dense, dark green, pyramidal or conical in young trees.
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| Herbarium Characteristics | Usually ovate-oblong, unequal-sided, about 13 × 6 cm, venation scalariform, about 11-nerved with pore-like domatia in the axils of the lower parts, drying a pale yellow-green color; petiole rather slender, about 16 mm long, drying black.
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