Holywood
गम ग्वायकम
Guaiacum sanctum L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Little
- tall
- 6.1 m
- wide
- 3.0 m
Zygophyllaceae
Also called Holywood Lignum Vitae
Formerly Guaiacum guatemalense, Guaiacum multijugum, Guaiacum parvifolium, Guaiacum sloanei, and 1 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
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. Mexico to C. America, Florida to CaribbeanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from UF/IFAS, one source
- Height
- 3.0 m to 9.1 mRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Spread
- 2.4 m to 3.7 mRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Flowers
- Purple, blueRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from UF/IFAS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (3)
- Spanish
- Guayacán, Guayacán Real
- Slovenian
- sveti gvajak
- Marathi
- गम ग्वायकम
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, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Guaiacum sanctum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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