Coccocypselum hirsutumBartl. ex DC.

yerba de guava

WFO wfo-0000900084 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Coccocypselum hirsutum, photographed by Stan Shebs
fig. a Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-06-27 / obs. 157257716
Coccocypselum hirsutum, photographed by Manuel Ortiz
fig. b Manuel Ortiz, CC0 1.0 / obs. 108170984
Coccocypselum hirsutum, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. c Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 43667894
Coccocypselum hirsutum, photographed by Daniel Hincapie
fig. d Daniel Hincapie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 36453690
Coccocypselum hirsutum, photographed by Jonathan Rodriguez
fig. e Jonathan Rodriguez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 30570230
Coccocypselum hirsutum, photographed by Alan Rockefeller
fig. f Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 25030140
Coccocypselum hirsutum, photographed by Alan Rockefeller
fig. g Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 24271991
Coccocypselum hirsutum, photographed by Alan Rockefeller
fig. h Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 21436369

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Native range 25 botanical countries

Regions where Coccocypselum hirsutum is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaCubaEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaGuyanaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáPeruTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela
Native distribution of Coccocypselum hirsutum, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
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 226 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 9.1 °C 13.0 °C 20.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 19.9 °C 26.9 °C 31.6 °C
Annual rainfall 1,316 mm 2,211 mm 4,523 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 32 mm 213 mm 558 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 226 research-grade observations of Coccocypselum hirsutum 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 6 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.

  • Coccocypselum ciliatum Schltdl. & Cham.
  • Coccocypselum discolor Van Houtte ex Kunze
  • Coccocypselum hirsutum var. hirsutum
  • Coccocypselum hirsutum var. uniflorum Hadac
  • Petesia repens Sessé & Moc.
  • Tontanea hirsuta (Bartl. ex DC.) Standl.

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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol COHI9. public domain. 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.