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Daphne caucasica Pall.

Caucasian daphne

Thymelaeaceae · North Caucasus, Transcaucasus

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Daphne caucasica, photograph Salicyna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDaphne caucasica, photograph Salicyna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDaphne caucasica, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDaphne caucasica, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDaphne caucasica, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDaphne caucasica, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 11 photographs ›

Summary

Daphne caucasica is a shrub, of the family Thymelaeaceae. It is evergreen, and is native to the Caucasus. It is a parent, with Daphne sericea (D. collina), of the popular hybrid garden plant Daphne × transatlantica.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Daphne caucasica", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Daphne

Daphne, a figure in Greek mythology, was in various retellings a mortal woman or a nymph, daughter of a river god. The god Apollo fell in love with Daphne and chased her against her wishes, but before he caught her, Daphne prayed for escape, and was transformed into a laurel tree. Thenceforth Apollo developed a special reverence for laurel.

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 5 of the 7 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.
NativeNorth Caucasus, Transcaucasus · 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 marker41.974, 44.762 · in the densest population, 5 records (71% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 7 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 5 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 143 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 5 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 inside the densest 2° block of the 7 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Salicyna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (4).

Other Daphne 44 in the reference

Daphne acutiloba Daphne acutiloba Thymelaeaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizDaphne alpina Daphne alpina Alpine daphne Photo: CC BY, mycorocoDaphne altaica Daphne altaica Altai mezereon Photo: CC BY, Yeskendir SatekovDaphne arbuscula Daphne arbuscula Thymelaeaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, ghislain118…Daphne arisanensis Daphne arisanensis Thymelaeaceae Photo: CC BY, 槲蕨MiuDaphne aurantiaca Daphne aurantiaca Thymelaeaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, C T JohanssonDaphne bholua Daphne bholua Lokta Photo: CC BY, Barry StewartDaphne blagayana Daphne blagayana Balkan daphne Photo: CC BY-SA, xulescu_gDaphne cneorum Daphne cneorum Garland-flower Photo: CC BY, Antoine ThivolleDaphne domini Daphne domini Thymelaeaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Gerhard BuzasDaphne gemmata Daphne gemmata Thymelaeaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, 阿橋 HQDaphne genkwa Daphne genkwa Thymelaeaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, KENPEI all 45 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Daphne caucasica subsp. caucasica; Daphne caucasica var. cognata; Daphne euphorbioides; Daphne salicifolia. (GBIF Backbone)

Under another author Daphne cneorum Gueldenst. and Daphne cneorum Gueldenst. ex Ledeb. is an older name of this species, not Daphne cneorum, a species of the reference. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Thymelaeaceae
Described by
Pall.
Native to
North Caucasus, Transcaucasus
Wild records
7 in range · 5 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 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
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; 5 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (5 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
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 6 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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