Elaeocarpus bancroftiiF.Muell. & F.M.Bailey

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WFO wfo-0000664056 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Elaeocarpus bancroftii, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. a Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-05-29 / obs. 201811226
Elaeocarpus bancroftii, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. b Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 174626735
Elaeocarpus bancroftii, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. c Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 143767714
Elaeocarpus bancroftii, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. d Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 143770062
Elaeocarpus bancroftii, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. e Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 143771702
Elaeocarpus bancroftii, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. f Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 102557884
Elaeocarpus bancroftii, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. g Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 202063724
Elaeocarpus bancroftii, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. h Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 176844704

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Elaeocarpus bancroftii is native: Queensland Queensland
Native distribution of Elaeocarpus bancroftii, 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
Queensland QLD AUSTRALASIA

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 42 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 15.9 °C 16.7 °C 19.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.1 °C 27.4 °C 28.9 °C
Annual rainfall 1,606 mm 1,889 mm 3,362 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 74 mm 95 mm 224 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 42 research-grade observations of Elaeocarpus bancroftii 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

  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.