Bursera hindsiana

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Bursera hindsiana, photographed by Bill Levine — fig. b Bill Levine, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29078855

Bursera hindsiana, photographed by John Hibbard — fig. c John Hibbard, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 280582

Bursera hindsiana, photographed by Erick Vélez Sánchez — fig. d Erick Vélez Sánchez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199783201

Bursera hindsiana, photographed by Abraham Sánchez Romero — fig. e Abraham Sánchez Romero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172477262

Bursera hindsiana, photographed by Sula Vanderplank — fig. f Sula Vanderplank, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57977571

Bursera hindsiana, photographed by Daniela Gámez — fig. g Daniela Gámez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 54239930

Bursera hindsiana, photographed by Adam J. Searcy — fig. h Adam J. Searcy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172020082

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Native distribution of Bursera hindsiana, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Mexico Northeast	MXE	NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Northwest	MXN
Mexico Southwest	MXS

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 443 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	10.2 °C	13.5 °C	17.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	29.2 °C	34.4 °C	37.1 °C
Annual rainfall	68 mm	125 mm	237 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	1 mm	2 mm	4 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 443 research-grade observations of Bursera hindsiana 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 10 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.

Bursera goldmanii (Rose) Engl.
Bursera hindsiana var. rhoifolia (Benth.) Engl.
Bursera macdougalii (Rose) Engl.
Bursera rhoifolia (Benth.) I.M.Johnst.
Elaphrium goldmanii Rose
Elaphrium hindsianum Benth.
Elaphrium macdougalii (Rose) Rose
Elaphrium rhoifolium Benth.
Terebinthus macdougalii Rose
Terebinthus rhoifolia (Benth.) Rose

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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.