Shorea faguetiana


Shorea faguetiana is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is native to Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, and Thailand.

Tallest ''Shorea faguetiana''

  1. The tallest documented angiosperm is a Shorea faguetiana, which is tall, and is found in the Danum Valley Conservation Area, in Sabah on the island of Borneo. The tree's height is 100.8 m from the top of the crown to the lowest part of the buttress. The average between the distance to the lowest part of bole and the distance to the highest part of bole is 97.58 m. The team that measured it has named the tree “Menara”. This tree was measured on January 6, 2019. A team from Oxford University, University College London, and Danum Valley Conservation Area scanned the tree to create a .
  2. An almost equally tall S. faguetiana,, is found in the Tawau Hills National Park, in Sabah on the island of Borneo, located some from Tawau and about from the Park's main station. This tree was discovered on May 28, 2018.
  3. Previously, in 2016, the then tallest tropical tree in the world known as “Lahad Datu ” was found at the Danum Valley Conservation Area measuring with a canopy measuring in diameter. The initial measurement from an aircraft was and the accurate tape drop measurement by a climber to the highest and to the lowest ground level. is the average of these figures.
  4. Also in 2016, a Shorea faguetiana measuring tall was found in an area of forest known as “Sabah’s Lost World” – the Maliau Basin Conservation Area, one of Malaysia's last few untouched wildernesses.
  5. For many years, the world's tallest tropical tree had been recognised as a Shorea faguetiana in the Tawau Hills Park with a height of, a tree which is located from the Park's main station.