Morisonia odoratissima(Jacq.) Christenh. & Byng

WFO wfo-1200002841 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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.

Morisonia odoratissima, photographed by Noah Yawn
fig. a Noah Yawn, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-17 / obs. 198405149
Morisonia odoratissima, photographed by Jorge I. Merchán Mayorga
fig. b Jorge I. Merchán Mayorga, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 149950090
Morisonia odoratissima, photographed by Noah Yawn
fig. c Noah Yawn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198405269
Morisonia odoratissima, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. d Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109628416
Morisonia odoratissima, photographed by Jorge I. Merchán Mayorga
fig. e Jorge I. Merchán Mayorga, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 149950119
Morisonia odoratissima, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. f Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109628429
Morisonia odoratissima, photographed by Jorge I. Merchán Mayorga
fig. g Jorge I. Merchán Mayorga, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 149950148

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 194 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 22.4 °C 25.0 °C 25.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.9 °C 28.2 °C 31.8 °C
Annual rainfall 615 mm 663 mm 1,698 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 20 mm 67 mm 75 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 194 research-grade observations of Morisonia odoratissima 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 11 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.

  • Capparis breynia Kunth
  • Capparis ferriginea Willd. ex Eichler
  • Capparis intermedia Kunth
  • Capparis lepidota (Turcz.) Knuth
  • Capparis odoratissima Jacq.
  • Capparis torulosa Griseb. ex Hemsl.
  • Colicodendron lepidotum Turcz.
  • Intutis amygdalina Raf.
  • Intutis ferruginea Raf.
  • Quadrella intermedia (Kunth) J.Presl
  • Quadrella odoratissima (Jacq.) Hutch.

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 and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.