Myrceugenia exsucca

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Myrceugenia exsucca, photographed by Nicolas Olejnik — fig. c Nicolas Olejnik, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 141232550

Myrceugenia exsucca, photographed by Inao Vasquez — fig. d Inao Vasquez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137300609

Myrceugenia exsucca, photographed by Cesar Ormazabal — fig. f Cesar Ormazabal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195801916

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Native distribution of Myrceugenia exsucca, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Argentina South	AGS	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Chile Central	CLC
Chile South	CLS

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 387 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	0.1 °C	4.3 °C	8.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	17.3 °C	21.7 °C	26.2 °C
Annual rainfall	551 mm	1,635 mm	3,413 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	4 mm	144 mm	362 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 387 research-grade observations of Myrceugenia exsucca 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 23 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 corralensis Phil.
Eugenia exsucca DC.
Eugenia exsucca var. apiculata O.Berg
Eugenia exsucca var. patagua O.Berg
Eugenia exsucca var. peruviana O.Berg
Eugenia exsucca var. temu (Hook. & Arn.) O.Berg
Eugenia multiflora Hook. & Arn.
Eugenia pitra O.Berg
Eugenia pitra var. angustifolia Hook. ex O.Berg
Eugenia temu Hook. & Arn.
Luma corralensis (Phil.) Burret
Luma exsucca (DC.) Burret
Luma pitra (O.Berg) Burret
Luma temu (Hook. & Arn.) A.Gray
Myrceugenia camphorata O.Berg
Myrceugenia exsucca var. apiculata (O.Berg) Reiche
Myrceugenia exsucca var. patagua (O.Berg) Reiche
Myrceugenia exsucca var. temu Reiche
Myrceugenia lechleriana O.Berg
Myrceugenia multiflora Kausel
Myrceugenia pitra (O.Berg) O.Berg
Myrceugenia pitra var. angustifolia Reiche
Myrtus camphorata (O.Berg) Baill.

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.
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.