Phoradendron berteroanum(DC.) Griseb.

WFO wfo-0000472569 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 4 separate observations

Phoradendron berteroanum, photographed by Juan Carlos Caicedo Hernández
fig. a Juan Carlos Caicedo Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-04-15 / obs. 125449539
Phoradendron berteroanum, photographed by John G. Phillips
fig. b John G. Phillips, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 37626564
Phoradendron berteroanum, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. c Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12100851
Phoradendron berteroanum, photographed by John G. Phillips
fig. d John G. Phillips, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 51442605

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Phoradendron berteroanum is native: Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Galápagos, Haiti, Jamaica, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Venezuela BoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorHaitiJamaicaPanamáPuerto RicoVenezuela Galápagos
Native distribution of Phoradendron berteroanum, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil North BZN
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
Galápagos GAL
Haiti HAI
Jamaica JAM
Panamá PAN
Puerto Rico PUE
Venezuela VEN

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 33 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 18.6 °C 19.8 °C 20.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.4 °C 25.6 °C 27.6 °C
Annual rainfall 1,061 mm 1,976 mm 2,328 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 77 mm 161 mm 208 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 33 research-grade observations of Phoradendron berteroanum 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 16 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.

  • Phoradendron campinense Trel.
  • Phoradendron cymosum Urb.
  • Phoradendron dichotomum var. ovatifolium Krug & Urb.
  • Phoradendron florianum (Andersson) B.L.Rob.
  • Phoradendron galapageium (Hook.f.) B.L.Rob.
  • Phoradendron henslovii (Hook.f.) B.L.Rob.
  • Phoradendron heydeanum f. australe Trel.
  • Phoradendron holtonis Trel.
  • Phoradendron lindenii Trel.
  • Phoradendron ovatifolium (Krug & Urb.) Urb.
  • Phoradendron pleurocymosum Rizzini
  • Phoradendron uncinatum B.L.Rob.
  • Viscum berteroanum DC.
  • Viscum florianum Andersson
  • Viscum galapageium Hook.f.
  • Viscum henslovii 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.
  3. 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.