Drimys winteri (Winter's bark)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Drimys winteri, photographed by Cesar Ormazabal — fig. a Cesar Ormazabal, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-21 / obs. 190478480

Drimys winteri, photographed by Nicolas Olejnik — fig. g Nicolas Olejnik, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184088175

Drimys winteri, photographed by Federico Muñoz — fig. h Federico Muñoz, CC0 1.0 / obs. 179440407

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Native distribution of Drimys winteri, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Argentina South	AGS	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Chile Central	CLC
Chile South	CLS

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.

Flowering 105 in flower of 368 examined

15%

16%

11%

44%

61%

55%

60%

28%

Proportion of examined Drimys winteri in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	6	40	15%	7% to 29%
Feb	6	38	16%	7% to 30%
Mar	4	49	8%	3% to 19%
Apr	3	28	11%	4% to 27%
May	0	24	0%	0% to 14%
Jun	0	15	0%	0% to 20%
Jul	1	9	11%	2% to 44%
Aug	7	16	44%	23% to 67%
Sep	22	36	61%	45% to 75%
Oct	21	38	55%	40% to 70%
Nov	26	43	60%	46% to 74%
Dec	9	32	28%	16% to 45%

Peak flowering in Sep. Each bar is the share of Drimys winteri observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 105 of 368 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 18 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.

Drimys aromatica Descourt.
Drimys chilensis DC.
Drimys chilensis var. latifolia Miers
Drimys magnoliifolia Kunth ex Eichler
Drimys paniculata Steud.
Drimys polumorpha Spach ex Baill.
Drimys polymorpha Spach ex Baill.
Drimys punctata Lam.
Drimys winteri f. chilensis (DC.) Eichler
Drimys winteri f. magellanica Eichler
Drimys winteri var. latifolia Miers
Drimys winteri var. morenonis Kuntze
Drimys winteri var. punctata (Lam.) DC.
Drimys winteri var. semiglobulosa Dusén
Drimys winteriana Thell.
Michelia acris Ruiz & Pav.
Temus moschata Molina
Wintera aromatica Murray

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.

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