Example ⟳ +
An example collection, so you can see what this page does. Nothing added here is kept: leaving deletes it.
Clethra fargesii; photograph Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SAAgnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Clethra fargesii Franch.

Farges Clethra

Clethraceae · China South-Central, China Southeast

No habitat climate
Add one to my plants
Sow seed
Clethra fargesii, photograph Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsClethra fargesii, photograph Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsClethra fargesii, photograph Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsClethra fargesii, photograph Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsClethra fargesii, photograph Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 6 photographs ›

About the genus · Clethra

Clethra is a genus of flowering shrubs or small trees erected as a genus by Linnaeus in 1753.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Clethra", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 92 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 92 of the 92 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, China Southeast · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker30.602, 109.727 · in the densest population, 41 records (45% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 92 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 54 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 25 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 92 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 92 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

Clethra fargesii, photograph 1did not loadClethra fargesii, photograph 2did not loadClethra fargesii, photograph 3did not loadClethra fargesii, photograph 4did not loadClethra fargesii, photograph 5did not load

Photographs: Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (5).

Other Clethra 12 in the reference

Clethra acuminata Clethra acuminata Mountain sweet pepperbush Photo: CC BY, Scott CaveClethra alnifolia Clethra alnifolia Coastal sweet pepperbush Photo: CC BY, Alexander DiazClethra arborea Clethra arborea Lily-of-the-valley-tree Photo: CC BY, Vítor JorgeClethra barbinervis Clethra barbinervis Japanese Clethra Photo: CC BY, Timur KalininskyClethra delavayi Clethra delavayi Clethraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, peganum from Henfield, EnglandClethra fagifolia Clethra fagifolia Clethraceae Photo: CC BY, Nicolás Baresch UribeClethra fimbriata Clethra fimbriata Clethraceae Photo: CC BY, Eric SchmidtClethra mexicana Clethra mexicana Jicarillo Photo: CC BY, Alexis López Hernández Clethra petelotii Clethraceae Clethra pringlei Clethraceae Clethra rosei Clethra rosei Clethraceae Photo: CC BY, Ricardo Betancourt SánchezClethra tomentosa Clethra tomentosa Downy sweet pepperbush Photo: CC BY, snail_hiker

Names & registers

Also known as Clethra brachypoda; Clethra brachystachya; Clethra magnifica; Clethra magnifica var. trichocarpa. (GBIF Backbone)

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidata

The record

Family
Clethraceae
Described by
Franch.
Native to
China South-Central, China Southeast
Wild records
92 in range · 54 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 4 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (4 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2192 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 13 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

Cultifolio

Opening your plants…