Cliffortia ericifolia

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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.

Cliffortia ericifolia, photographed by Chris Vynbos — fig. a Chris Vynbos, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2019-09-18 / obs. 51745670

Cliffortia ericifolia, photographed by Jacques van der Merwe — fig. b Jacques van der Merwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15553880

Cliffortia ericifolia, photographed by Simon Tamblyn — fig. e Simon Tamblyn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161041806

Cliffortia ericifolia, photographed by Tony Rebelo — fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15543353

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 42 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	9.5 °C	10.9 °C	11.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	21.7 °C	22.9 °C	24.9 °C
Annual rainfall	629 mm	718 mm	775 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	57 mm	66 mm	73 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 42 research-grade observations of Cliffortia ericifolia 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

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.

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. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.