Nestegis cunninghamii(Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson

WFO wfo-0000817086 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Nestegis cunninghamii, photographed by Leon Perrie
fig. a Leon Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-12 / obs. 182538881
Nestegis cunninghamii, photographed by M Rutherford
fig. b M Rutherford, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175119340
Nestegis cunninghamii, photographed by Joe Dillon
fig. c Joe Dillon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130904196
Nestegis cunninghamii, photographed by M Rutherford
fig. d M Rutherford, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113751061
Nestegis cunninghamii, photographed by Joe Dillon
fig. e Joe Dillon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112386188
Nestegis cunninghamii, photographed by Joe Dillon
fig. f Joe Dillon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112110478
Nestegis cunninghamii, photographed by Joe Dillon
fig. g Joe Dillon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 95512220
Nestegis cunninghamii, photographed by Tim McNamara
fig. h Tim McNamara, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 30466150

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Where it actually grows measured, from 501 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 1.7 °C 4.2 °C 8.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 17.1 °C 19.4 °C 22.4 °C
Annual rainfall 1,011 mm 1,510 mm 2,514 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 200 mm 287 mm 480 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 501 research-grade observations of Nestegis cunninghamii 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 2 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.

  • Gymnelaea cunninghamii (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson
  • Olea cunninghamii Hook.f.

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.