The Chin Hills-Arakan Yoma montane forests cover the Chin Hills and Arakan (Rakhine) Yoma mountain range along the western coast of Myanmar, spanning Chin State, Rakhine State, and the Bago and Magway regions. Vegetation shifts sharply with elevation: lower slopes below about 1,000 meters are dominated by Bauhinia, Lagerstroemia, and Ficus, while mixed evergreen forests higher up are led by oak (Quercus), Castanopsis, and Schima, giving way to Rhododendron near the highest peaks such as Nat Ma Taung (Mount Victoria), which rises to about 3,070 meters. The climate is tropical, with most months rainy and annual rainfall that can exceed 4,000 millimeters, yet winters can drop below freezing at the highest elevations. These mountains are a hotspot for endemism, home to the critically endangered Arakan forest turtle and the world's largest population of the Western hoolock gibbon. For gardeners, the region is also native ground for ornamentals including Rhododendron, Lagerstroemia, and Bauhinia.

At a glance

About the tropical & subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome

Warm, wet, highly productive forests — including tropical rainforests — with closed canopies, near year-round growing seasons, and the richest terrestrial biodiversity on Earth. Low seasonality and high rainfall sustain dense, layered vegetation from canopy to forest floor.

Catalog plants suited to this ecoregion

Computed from each plant's stated USDA zone range against this ecoregion's CHELSA-derived current zone range, with the CHELSA mid-century warming delta applied for the projection. Plants whose stated range falls outside both the current and projected zone end up dropped; the rest land in one of the three buckets below.

Collections for this ecoregion

No curated collection's plants all fit this ecoregion's zone range. We surface a collection only when every member would grow here — partial fits get filtered out rather than mislead. As the catalog and the curated set both grow, this section will fill in.

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