Drimys granadensis is a broadleaf evergreen tree of family Winteraceae. it is native to tropical montane forests from Peru to southern Mexico.
Common names in Mexico include al-ca-puc, cashiquec, chachaca, chilillo, palo picante, palo de chile, yaga-bziga, and vaya-yiña.[2]
Description
Drimys granadensis is an evergreen shrub or small tree, up to 12 meters tall, with large white flowers.[2]
Range and habitat
Drimys granadensis ranges from Peru through Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, and Central America to southern Mexico.[1] It is typical of mature montane cloud forests of the Northern Andes, Central American Cordillera, and the mountains of southern Mexico.[2]
In southern Mexico it is found in cloud forests, and in riparian zones and well-watered ravines in humid oak forests and pine–oak forests, from 1,100 to 3,300 meters elevation.[2]
Drimys granadensis var. chiriquiensis A.C.Sm. – Panama
Drimys granadensis var. granadensis – Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, northwest Venezuela
Drimys granadensis var. mexicana (DC.) A.C.Sm. – Mexico (Veracruz, Puebla, Guerrero, Oaxaca, and Chiapas states), Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica
Drimys granadensis var. peruviana A.C.Sm. – Peru
Drimys granadensis var. uniflora (Turcz.) A.C.Sm. – northwest Venezuela
^ abcdMario González-Espinosa, Jorge A. Meave, Francisco G. Lorea-Hernández, Guillermo Ibarra-Manríquez and Adrian C. Newton, eds (2011). The Red List of Mexican Cloud Forest Trees. Fauna & Flora International, Cambridge, UK. 2011. ISBN9781903703281
