Schinus longifolia (longleaf peppertree)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Schinus longifolia, photographed by Lauu — fig. a Lauu, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-04 / obs. 203862921

Schinus longifolia, photographed by Florencia Grattarola — fig. b Florencia Grattarola, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199472461

Schinus longifolia, photographed by Eduardo Luis Beltrocco — fig. d Eduardo Luis Beltrocco, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195914211

Schinus longifolia, photographed by Sebastián Gómez Barboza Silveira — fig. h Sebastián Gómez Barboza Silveira, CC0 1.0 / obs. 186645941

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Native distribution of Schinus longifolia, 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 Northeast	AGE	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest	AGW
Brazil South	BZS
Brazil West-Central	BZC
Paraguay	PAR
Uruguay	URU

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.

Flowering 37 in flower of 119 examined

60%

38%

50%

69%

Proportion of examined Schinus longifolia in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	3	too few examined
Feb	0	6	0%	0% to 39%
Mar	0	5	0%	0% to 43%
Apr	0	2	too few examined
May	0	7	0%	0% to 35%
Jun	0	3	too few examined
Jul	3	5	60%	23% to 88%
Aug	3	8	38%	14% to 69%
Sep	5	10	50%	24% to 76%
Oct	25	36	69%	53% to 82%
Nov	1	18	6%	1% to 26%
Dec	0	16	0%	0% to 19%

Peak flowering in Oct. Each bar is the share of Schinus longifolia observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 37 of 119 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

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.

Duvaua longifolia Lindl.
Schinus dependens var. alfa Engl.

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.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
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.

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