Thai Botanic · Project plant supply
Bucida buceras
Discover Bucida buceras at Thai Plants Nursery. This elegant tropical tree offers dense foliage, shade, and beauty for modern landscapes.
Black olive, oxhorn bucida · Combretaceae · Evergreen tree
A dense, wind-firm evergreen with a layered horizontal crown, widely used across the Gulf for streets, car parks and civic planting. Holds its shape under wind, tolerates salt, and keeps its leaves year-round — the combination that makes it a default urban tree in hot coastal cities.
Specification
| Mature height | 12–18 m |
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| Crown spread | 8–15 m (indicative) |
| Caliper range supplied | 5–22 cm standard, measured 1 m above soil level. Larger by arrangement. |
| Root-ball diameter | 80–150 cm (indicative) |
| Growth rate | Slow to moderate |
| Habit | Evergreen |
| Flowering | Inconspicuous greenish spikes |
Landscape use
Street and avenue planting, car parks, plazas, courtyards and coastal urban schemes. The tiered crown gives dense shade at a manageable scale, and it responds well to formative pruning where a uniform street line is wanted.
It shows to best advantage over planting, gravel or darker paving rather than pale hard landscape, where the fallen fruit can mark. Growth is measured, so specify the size you want at delivery — the trees hold their form and scale for many years once planted.
Site tolerance
| Drought | High once established |
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| Salinity | High — coastal and saline soils |
| Wind | Very high — among the most wind-firm in the catalogue |
| Soil | Wide range including alkaline and limestone soils |
| Heat | Very high |
| USDA zone | 10–12 |
Export notes
Supplied root-balled and wrapped. Slow-growing, so large calliper stock represents real nursery time and availability is more limited than in fast species. Phytosanitary certification accompanies every shipment. See export and compliance, and how the root ball is built, wrapped and loaded for the container on our nursery site.
For available sizes and current stock in this species, message us on WhatsApp at +66 93 425 9892 or email contact@thaibotanic.com — or browse the species catalogue. This is one of the species we grow and supply regularly. If you are working to a programme, send the planting schedule and we will plan lifting and shipping around it. Where a design calls for something outside our usual range, we source it through the nursery network we have worked with for years, given reasonable notice.