Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_sandoricum_koetjape
Santol
Sandoricum koetjape
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About Santol
Santol (Sandoricum koetjape) is a post-contact introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi through historical forestry planting records. The reviewed records do not establish present survival. A tropical tree associated with primary and secondary rainforests; NParks gives its native distribution from Sumatra through Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo to New Guinea. A government forestry ledger compiled in 1980 documents this species planted on Kauaʻi within the 1910–1960 forestry program; no species-specific year is available from the reviewed index. The record is historical planting evidence only: current survival, naturalization, abundance, and ecological effects are unconfirmed. Public occurrence is island-level only.
Kauaʻi evidence
Taxonomic identity, tree form, diagnostic morphology and island occurrence use the linked reviewed sources. Historical planting, cultivation, naturalization and invasive status are separate. Generated imagery is not occurrence evidence.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Sandoricum koetjape
- Common names
- Santol · Cotton fruit
- Other names
- Sandoricum koetjape · Santol · Cotton fruit
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-06
- Evidence limits
- Current survival on Kauaʻi, number of trees, occupied habitat, flowering or fruiting, recruitment, population trend, and ecological effects are all unconfirmed; no naturalization or invasive severity is inferred from the historical planting record.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Small bisexual flowers require animal pollination; fleshy fruits can be dispersed by animals. Kauaʻi flowering, fruit set, seed viability, and recruitment are unknown.
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Evergreen or briefly deciduous tree
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Not yet assessed
- Data gaps
- Current population extent and trajectory · Additional species-specific ecological and conservation sources
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- Santol (Sandoricum koetjape) is a post-contact introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi through historical forestry planting records. The reviewed records do not establish present survival. A tropical tree associated with primary and secondary rainforests; NParks gives its native distribution from Sumatra through Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo to New Guinea. A government forestry ledger compiled in 1980 documents this species planted on Kauaʻi within the 1910–1960 forestry program; no species-specific year is available from the reviewed index. The record is historical planting evidence only: current survival, naturalization, abundance, and ecological effects are unconfirmed. Public occurrence is island-level only.