Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection
- Herbarium
- The New York Botanical Garden
- Accession
- 1025039
- Filed as
- Chrysophyllum argenteum Jacq.
- Det. by
- A. Cronquist 1944-01-01
- Collected
- J. R. Johnston 1912-08-10
- Origin
- PR
- The sheet
- View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)
A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.
Native range 20 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Bolivia | BOL | SOUTHERN AMERICA |
| Brazil North | BZN | |
| Colombia | CLM | |
| Costa Rica | COS | |
| Cuba | CUB | |
| Dominican Republic | DOM | |
| Ecuador | ECU | |
| French Guiana | FRG | |
| Guyana | GUY | |
| Haiti | HAI | |
| Jamaica | JAM | |
| Leeward Is. | LEE | |
| Nicaragua | NIC | |
| Panamá | PAN | |
| Peru | PER | |
| Puerto Rico | PUE | |
| Suriname | SUR | |
| Trinidad-Tobago | TRT | |
| Venezuela | VEN | |
| Windward Is. | WIN |
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 84 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 16.5 °C | 20.9 °C | 23.1 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 26.5 °C | 29.7 °C | 30.9 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 1,290 mm | 1,890 mm | 2,586 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 148 mm | 278 mm | 345 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 84 research-grade observations of Chrysophyllum argenteum 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 32 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.
- Chrysophyllum argenteum var. lamarckii A.DC.
- Chrysophyllum argenteum var. sphaerocarpum Urb.
- Chrysophyllum auratum Miq.
- Chrysophyllum auratum var. glabriflorum Monach.
- Chrysophyllum auratum var. majus Miq.
- Chrysophyllum dubium Steud.
- Chrysophyllum ferrugineum (Ruiz & Pav.) Steud.
- Chrysophyllum glabrum Jacq.
- Chrysophyllum guyanense Klotzsch ex Miq.
- Chrysophyllum hostmannianum Klotzsch ex Miq.
- Chrysophyllum immersum Urb.
- Chrysophyllum macrophyllum C.F.Gaertn.
- Chrysophyllum microcarpum Sw.
- Chrysophyllum nitidissimum Klotzsch ex Miq.
- Chrysophyllum nitidum G.Mey.
- Chrysophyllum panamense Pittier
- Chrysophyllum panamense var. macrophyllum Standl.
- Chrysophyllum pavonii Cronquist
- Chrysophyllum psilophyllum A.DC.
- Chrysophyllum richardii Klotzsch ex Miq.
- Chrysophyllum sericeum A.DC.
- Chrysophyllum sericeum var. acutifolium Miq.
- Chrysophyllum sericeum var. obtusifolium Miq.
- Cynodendron argenteum (Jacq.) Baehni
and 8 more.
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.
- Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. 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.