Cordia collococcaL.

Clammy Cherryred manjack

WFO wfo-0000620368 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Cordia collococca, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. a Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-04-15 / obs. 67687033
Cordia collococca, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. b Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67810034
Cordia collococca, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. c Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67689038
Cordia collococca, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. d Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67683939
Cordia collococca, photographed by Don Loarie
fig. e Don Loarie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 58840843
Cordia collococca, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. f Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67380935
Cordia collococca, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. g Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67359698
Cordia collococca, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. h Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67264792

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Native range 26 botanical countries

Regions where Cordia collococca is native: Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is. Mexico GulfMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáPuerto RicoSouthwest CaribbeanTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela BahamasLeeward Is.Venezuelan AntillesWindward Is.
Native distribution of Cordia collococca, 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
Bahamas BAH SOUTHERN AMERICA
Belize BLZ
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Puerto Rico PUE
Southwest Caribbean SWC
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Venezuelan Antilles VNA
Windward Is. WIN
Mexico Gulf MXG NORTHERN AMERICA
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 106 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 13.5 °C 22.7 °C 24.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.2 °C 28.8 °C 32.6 °C
Annual rainfall 1,162 mm 1,774 mm 4,583 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 60 mm 172 mm 369 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 106 research-grade observations of Cordia collococca 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 8 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.

  • Cordia ehretioides Lam.
  • Cordia micrantha Sw.
  • Cordia rariflora A.Rich.
  • Ehretia dubia Jacq.
  • Gerascanthus collococcus (L.) Borhidi
  • Gerascanthus ehretioides (R.D.Good) Borhidi
  • Lithocardium collococca (L.) Kuntze
  • Sebestena collococca (L.) J.Presl

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.