Clusia roseaJacq.

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WFO wfo-0000612436 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Clusia rosea, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. a Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-15 / obs. 197975730
Clusia rosea, photographed by Jay Pruett
fig. b Jay Pruett, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186959716
Clusia rosea, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. c Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177071041
Clusia rosea, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. d Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176067562
Clusia rosea, photographed by caymanmatt
fig. e caymanmatt, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152276473
Clusia rosea, photographed by Ben Machado
fig. f Ben Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 132054381
Clusia rosea, photographed by Kevin Faccenda
fig. g Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131464164
Clusia rosea, photographed by Zoltán Stekkelpak
fig. h Zoltán Stekkelpak, CC0 1.0 / obs. 108366521

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Native range 32 botanical countries

Regions where Clusia rosea is native: Florida, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Cayman Is., Central American Pacific Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is. FloridaMexico GulfMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeCentral American Pacific Is.ColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorEl SalvadorFrench GuianaGuatemalaGuyanaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáPuerto RicoSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela ArubaBahamasCayman Is.Leeward Is.Netherlands AntillesTurks-Caicos Is.Venezuelan AntillesWindward Is.
Native distribution of Clusia rosea, 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
Aruba ARU SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bahamas BAH
Belize BLZ
Cayman Is. CAY
Central American Pacific Is. CPI
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
French Guiana FRG
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Netherlands Antilles NLA
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Puerto Rico PUE
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Turks-Caicos Is. TCI
Venezuela VEN
Venezuelan Antilles VNA
Windward Is. WIN
Florida FLA NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Southeast MXT
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 1,997 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 16.1 °C 20.3 °C 23.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 25.3 °C 27.3 °C 30.9 °C
Annual rainfall 727 mm 1,378 mm 4,494 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 88 mm 197 mm 906 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 1,997 research-grade observations of Clusia rosea 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 4 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.

  • Clusia retusa Poir.
  • Clusia silvicola Britton
  • Elwertia retusa Raf.
  • Firkea rosea (Jacq.) Raf.

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.