Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 7 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Argentina Northeast | AGE | SOUTHERN AMERICA |
| Brazil North | BZN | |
| Brazil Northeast | BZE | |
| Brazil South | BZS | |
| Brazil Southeast | BZL | |
| Brazil West-Central | BZC | |
| Paraguay | PAR |
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 990 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 10.8 °C | 13.1 °C | 21.3 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 26.0 °C | 30.0 °C | 32.3 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 1,221 mm | 1,660 mm | 2,834 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 28 mm | 178 mm | 546 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 990 research-grade observations of Cecropia pachystachya 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 24 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.
- Ambaiba adenopus (Mart. ex Miq.) Kuntze
- Ambaiba carbonaria (Mart. ex Miq.) Kuntze
- Ambaiba cinerea (Miq.) Kuntze
- Ambaiba cyrtostachya (Miq.) Kuntze
- Ambaiba lyratiflora (Miq.) Kuntze
- Ambaiba lyratiloba (Miq.) Kuntze
- Ambaiba pachystachya (Trécul) Kuntze
- Ambaiba tenoreana Kuntze
- Cecropia adenopus Mart. ex Miq.
- Cecropia adenopus var. lata Snethl.
- Cecropia adenopus var. lyratiloba Hassl.
- Cecropia adenopus var. macrophylla Hassl.
- Cecropia adenopus var. oblonga Snethl.
- Cecropia adenopus var. vulgaris Hassl.
- Cecropia ambaci Rojas Acosta
- Cecropia carbonaria Mart. ex Miq.
- Cecropia catarinensis Cuatrec.
- Cecropia cinerea Miq.
- Cecropia cyrtostachya Miq.
- Cecropia digitata Ten. ex Miq.
- Cecropia glauca Rojas Acosta
- Cecropia lyratiloba Miq.
- Cecropia lyratiloba var. nana J.C.Andrade & J.P.Pereira
- Cecropia peltata Vell.
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.
- USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol CEAD2. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- 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.