Allophylus edulis(A.St.-Hil., A.Juss. & Cambess.) Radlk. ex Warm.

WFO wfo-0000526658 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Allophylus edulis, photographed by Gustavo Puente
fig. a Gustavo Puente, CC0 1.0 / 2021-11-27 / obs. 170515659
Allophylus edulis, photographed by Gonzalo Martinez
fig. b Gonzalo Martinez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166009487
Allophylus edulis, photographed by Carlos Henrique Russi
fig. c Carlos Henrique Russi, CC0 1.0 / obs. 163798301
Allophylus edulis, photographed by Candela Castro
fig. d Candela Castro, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160309241
Allophylus edulis, photographed by Candela Castro
fig. e Candela Castro, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160308818
Allophylus edulis, photographed by Joaquin Valentinuzzi
fig. f Joaquin Valentinuzzi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158846178
Allophylus edulis, photographed by William G. Borges
fig. g William G. Borges, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157454452
Allophylus edulis, photographed by Leonel Roget
fig. h Leonel Roget, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126860931

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Allophylus edulis is native: Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Uruguay Argentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralFrench GuianaGuyanaParaguayUruguay
Native distribution of Allophylus edulis, 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
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest AGW
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
French Guiana FRG
Guyana GUY
Paraguay PAR
Uruguay URU

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 620 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 6.2 °C 8.5 °C 13.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.2 °C 28.2 °C 31.7 °C
Annual rainfall 1,064 mm 1,276 mm 2,056 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 31 mm 189 mm 413 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 620 research-grade observations of Allophylus edulis 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 12 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.

  • Allophylus cambessedei Blume
  • Allophylus edulis var. gracilis Radlk.
  • Allophylus edulis var. rosae F.A.Barkley
  • Allophylus edulis var. subsessilis Huber
  • Allophylus membranifolius Radlk.
  • Allophylus pauciflorus var. rojasii F.A.Barkley
  • Allophylus puberulus (Cambess.) Radlk.
  • Nassavia axillaris Vell.
  • Nassavia terminalis Vell.
  • Schmidelia edulis A.St.-Hil.
  • Schmidelia levis Cambess.
  • Schmidelia puberula Cambess.

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.