Acacia mangiumWilld.

WFO wfo-0000202567 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Acacia mangium, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. a Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-03-23 / obs. 184155669
Acacia mangium, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. b Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 171054162
Acacia mangium, photographed by Juan C. Espinosa
fig. c Juan C. Espinosa, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137536970
Acacia mangium, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. d Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 123971689
Acacia mangium, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. e Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 110954146
Acacia mangium, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. f Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 110957053
Acacia mangium, photographed by Zoltán Stekkelpak
fig. g Zoltán Stekkelpak, CC0 1.0 / obs. 108955938
Acacia mangium, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. h Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 104093712

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Acacia mangium is native: Maluku, New Guinea, Queensland MalukuNew GuineaQueensland
Native distribution of Acacia mangium, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Maluku MOL ASIA-TROPICAL
New Guinea NWG
Queensland QLD AUSTRALASIA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 911 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 10.8 °C 21.8 °C 24.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.0 °C 30.2 °C 33.5 °C
Annual rainfall 1,272 mm 2,582 mm 3,562 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 28 mm 218 mm 555 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 911 research-grade observations of Acacia mangium that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 4 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Acacia glaucescens sensu Kaneh. & Hatus., non Wi
  • Acacia holosericea var. glabrata C.T.White
  • Mangium montanum Rumph.
  • Racosperma mangium (Willd.) Pedley

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.