Ardisia cymosaBlume

WFO wfo-0000544170 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Ardisia cymosa, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-01-19 / obs. 110881291
Ardisia cymosa, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. b 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63089892
Ardisia cymosa, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. c 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63089889
Ardisia cymosa, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. d 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63089890
Ardisia cymosa, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. e 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63089891
Ardisia cymosa, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. f Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 124944922
Ardisia cymosa, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. g Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 124944980

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Ardisia cymosa is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Borneo, Jawa, Malaya, Philippines, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastTaiwanBorneoJawaMalayaPhilippinesSumateraThailandVietnam Nansei-shoto
Native distribution of Ardisia cymosa, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Borneo BOR ASIA-TROPICAL
Jawa JAW
Malaya MLY
Philippines PHI
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI

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 143 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 7.1 °C 11.3 °C 16.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.4 °C 27.8 °C 29.7 °C
Annual rainfall 2,785 mm 4,357 mm 4,963 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 137 mm 689 mm 853 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 143 research-grade observations of Ardisia cymosa 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 21 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.

  • Ardisia argenticaulis Y.P.Yang
  • Ardisia cagayanensis Merr.
  • Ardisia chinensis Benth.
  • Ardisia chinensis var. stenophylla C.M.Hu & J.E.Vidal
  • Ardisia cymosa var. albiflora Koord. & Valeton
  • Ardisia jiajiangensis Z.Y.Zhu
  • Ardisia nutans A.DC.
  • Ardisia pauciflora var. cymosa (Blume) A.DC.
  • Ardisia perakensis King & Gamble
  • Ardisia punctata Blume
  • Ardisia singaporensis Ridl.
  • Ardisia suffruticosa Ridl.
  • Ardisia triflora Hemsl.
  • Ardisia umbrosa Zoll. & Moritzi
  • Ardisia undulato-dentata H.R.Fletcher
  • Bladhia chinensis (Benth.) Nakai
  • Bladhia chinensis var. minor Nakai
  • Bladhia triflora (Hemsl.) Nakai
  • Tinus chinensis (Benth.) Kuntze
  • Tinus nutans (A.DC.) Kuntze
  • Tinus triflora (Hemsl.) Kuntze

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.