Buchanania arborescens(Blume) Blume

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WFO wfo-0000573371 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 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.

Buchanania arborescens, photographed by 葉子
fig. a 葉子, CC0 1.0 / 2022-03-16 / obs. 190610750
Buchanania arborescens, photographed by 葉子
fig. b 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 173672310
Buchanania arborescens, photographed by Cheongweei Gan
fig. c Cheongweei Gan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152387308
Buchanania arborescens, photographed by Cheongweei Gan
fig. d Cheongweei Gan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150453204
Buchanania arborescens, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. e Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 112014097
Buchanania arborescens, photographed by 葉子
fig. f 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190610716
Buchanania arborescens, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. g Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 106283360
Buchanania arborescens, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. h Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 101991450

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Buchanania arborescens is native: Taiwan, Andaman Is., Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, Northern Territory, Queensland, Vanuatu TaiwanBismarck ArchipelagoBorneoCambodiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarNew GuineaPhilippinesSolomon Is.SulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamNorthern TerritoryQueensland Andaman Is.Vanuatu
Native distribution of Buchanania arborescens, 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
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Bismarck Archipelago BIS
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Solomon Is. SOL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
Northern Territory NTA AUSTRALASIA
Queensland QLD
Taiwan TAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Vanuatu VAN PACIFIC

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 124 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 14.5 °C 19.3 °C 25.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.9 °C 29.4 °C 32.2 °C
Annual rainfall 1,295 mm 1,914 mm 2,964 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 30 mm 82 mm 566 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 124 research-grade observations of Buchanania arborescens 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 35 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.

  • Buchanania angustifolia Benth.
  • Buchanania arborescens F.Muell.
  • Buchanania attopeuensis (Pierre) Tardieu
  • Buchanania bancana Miq.
  • Buchanania decandra Blanco
  • Buchanania florida A.Gray
  • Buchanania florida var. arborescens Engl.
  • Buchanania florida var. arborescens Pierre
  • Buchanania florida var. attopeuensis Pierre
  • Buchanania florida var. cumingii Engl.
  • Buchanania florida var. dongnaiensis Pierre
  • Buchanania florida var. lucida (Blume) Engl.
  • Buchanania florida var. petiolaris (Miq.) Engl.
  • Buchanania glaberrima Ridl.
  • Buchanania intermedia Wight
  • Buchanania longifolia Blume
  • Buchanania longifolia Span.
  • Buchanania lucida Blume
  • Buchanania lucida var. laxiflora Ridl.
  • Buchanania lucida var. palembanica (Blume) Miq.
  • Buchanania monticola Kaneh. & Hatus.
  • Buchanania muelleri Engl.
  • Buchanania nabirensis Kaneh. & Hatus.
  • Buchanania novohibernica Lauterb.

and 11 more.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.