Guazuma ulmifoliaLam.

West Indian Elm

WFO wfo-0000711645 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Guazuma ulmifolia, photographed by Haneesh K M
fig. a Haneesh K M, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-14 / obs. 197849959
Guazuma ulmifolia, photographed by Maria Janeiro
fig. b Maria Janeiro, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192897704
Guazuma ulmifolia, photographed by Tereso Hernández Morales
fig. c Tereso Hernández Morales, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183852688
Guazuma ulmifolia, photographed by Haneesh K M
fig. d Haneesh K M, CC0 1.0 / obs. 176108130
Guazuma ulmifolia, photographed by Sue Carnahan
fig. e Sue Carnahan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177274663
Guazuma ulmifolia, photographed by Erick Vélez Sánchez
fig. f Erick Vélez Sánchez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179002840
Guazuma ulmifolia, photographed by Luis Rubio-Yépez
fig. g Luis Rubio-Yépez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154624687
Guazuma ulmifolia, photographed by Jalil R.
fig. h Jalil R., CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 163088274

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Flowering n = 250 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 250 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 27 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.

  • Bubroma guasuma Willd.
  • Bubroma guazuma (L.) Willd.
  • Bubroma polybotryum (Cav.) Willd.
  • Bubroma tomentosum (Kunth) Spreng.
  • Bubroma ulmifolia (Lam.) Oken
  • Diuroglossum rufescens Turcz.
  • Guazuma blumei G.Don
  • Guazuma burbroma Tussac
  • Guazuma coriacea Rusby
  • Guazuma guazuma (L.) Cockerell
  • Guazuma guazuma var. tomentosa (Kunth) Kuntze
  • Guazuma guazuma var. ulmifolia (Lam.) Kuntze
  • Guazuma parvifolia A.Rich.
  • Guazuma polybotrya Cav.
  • Guazuma tomentosa Kunth
  • Guazuma tomentosa var. cumanensis G.Don
  • Guazuma tomentosa var. monpoxensis G.Don
  • Guazuma tomentosa var. parvifolia Kitan.
  • Guazuma ulmifolia var. glabra K.Schum.
  • Guazuma ulmifolia var. tomentosa (Kunth) K.Schum.
  • Guazuma ulmifolia var. trianae K.Schum.
  • Guazuma ulmifolia var. ulmifolia
  • Guazuma ulmifolia var. velutina K.Schum.
  • Guazuma utilis Poepp.

and 3 more.

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.