Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
Native range 21 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Caroline Is. | CRL | PACIFIC |
| Cook Is. | COO | |
| Fiji | FIJ | |
| Hawaii | HAW | |
| Marianas | MRN | |
| Marquesas | MRQ | |
| Niue | NUE | |
| Pitcairn Is. | PIT | |
| Samoa | SAM | |
| Society Is. | SCI | |
| Tonga | TON | |
| Tuamotu | TUA | |
| Tubuai Is. | TUB | |
| Vanuatu | VAN | |
| Borneo | BOR | ASIA-TROPICAL |
| Jawa | JAW | |
| Lesser Sunda Is. | LSI | |
| Maluku | MOL | |
| New Guinea | NWG | |
| Queensland | QLD | AUSTRALASIA |
| Western Australia | WAU |
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 127 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 13.6 °C | 17.6 °C | 25.3 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 27.0 °C | 28.6 °C | 30.6 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 945 mm | 1,328 mm | 2,843 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 44 mm | 74 mm | 332 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 127 research-grade observations of Eugenia reinwardtiana 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 16 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.
- Eugenia carissoides F.Muell.
- Eugenia costenoblei Merr.
- Eugenia hypospodia F.Muell.
- Eugenia kangeanensis Valeton
- Eugenia koolauensis var. glabra O.Deg.
- Eugenia macrohila C.T.White & W.D.Francis
- Eugenia rariflora Benth.
- Eugenia rariflora var. parvifolia Hillebr.
- Eugenia reinwardtiana f. lutea H.St.John
- Eugenia waianensis O.Deg.
- Jambosa maritima Miq.
- Jossinia costenoblei (Merr.) Diels
- Jossinia desmantha Diels
- Jossinia reinwardtiana (Blume) Blume
- Jossinia tahitensis Nadeaud
- Myrtus reinwardtiana Blume
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.
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.