Button mangrove
കോനോകാർപ്പാസ് ഇറക്ക്റ്റസ്
Conocarpus erectus L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 11 m
- wide
- 7.6 m
Combretaceae
Also called Silver-leaved Buttonwood
Formerly Conocarpus acutifolius, Conocarpus procumbens, Conocarpus pubescens, Conocarpus sericeus, and 2 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. Florida to Peru and Brazil, W. Trop. Africa to N. AngolaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from UF/IFAS Extension and UF/IFAS Gardening Solutions, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: UF/IFAS Extension full; UF/IFAS Gardening Solutions full, part
- Height
- 9.1 m to 14 mRead from UF/IFAS Extension, one source
- Spread
- 6.1 m to 9.1 mRead from UF/IFAS Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from UF/IFAS Extension and UF/IFAS Gardening Solutions, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- GreenRead from UF/IFAS Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from UF/IFAS Extension and UF/IFAS Gardening Solutions, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (3)
- Portuguese
- mangue-de-botão
- Chinese
- 桤果木, 锥果木
- Malayalam
- കോനോകാർപ്പാസ് ഇറക്ക്റ്റസ്
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- UF/IFAS Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- UF/IFAS Gardening Solutions, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Conocarpus erectus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.