Hedycarya arborea (Pigeonwood)

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Hedycarya arborea, photographed by Joe Dillon — fig. a Joe Dillon, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-06 / obs. 203786758

Hedycarya arborea, photographed by Christopher Stephens — fig. b Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 193576879

Hedycarya arborea, photographed by Kate McAlpine — fig. c Kate McAlpine, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193412104

Hedycarya arborea, photographed by Halema J — fig. d Halema J, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192762833

Hedycarya arborea, photographed by Emily Roberts — fig. e Emily Roberts, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192540173

Hedycarya arborea, photographed by Jon Sullivan — fig. f Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195561275

Hedycarya arborea, photographed by Jaco Grundling — fig. g Jaco Grundling, CC0 1.0 / obs. 192111579

Hedycarya arborea, photographed by Tom Ferguson — fig. h Tom Ferguson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 191924092

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Flowering n = 135 observations

Flowering observations of Hedycarya arborea by month
Month	Observations
Jan	0
Feb	0
Mar	0
Apr	0
May	0
Jun	0
Jul	0
Aug	1
Sep	6
Oct	57
Nov	67
Dec	4

Peak flowering in Nov, from 135 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 4 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.

Hedycarya bengalensis Roxb. ex Walp.
Hedycarya dentata G.Forst.
Hedycarya hirsuta Spreng.
Hedycarya scabra A.Cunn.

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.

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.