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Litsea glaucescens; photograph Ernestolapeña, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SAErnestolapeña, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Litsea glaucescens Kunth

Lauraceae · Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast +8

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Litsea glaucescens, photograph Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsLitsea glaucescens, photograph Ernestolapeña, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 3 photographs ›

Summary

Litsea glaucescens, also called Mexican bay leaf, is an evergreen tree or shrub 3–6 metres (9.8–19.7 ft) high in the genus Litsea belonging to family Lauraceae. It is native to Mexico and to Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Costa Rica in Central America.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Litsea glaucescens", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so no sheet is derived.

Climate across the habitat

Not checked. GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so none is derived here. This is not a statement that no climate exists.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Records not checked: GBIF's records were not asked, as said under the name.
NativeMexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Mexico Southeast, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras · 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).
Kew's description“tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedGBIF's records not checked, as said under the name: so there are no points on the map, no map marker and no climate across the range; the range is Kew's. Not a statement that no record exists.

Photographs

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Photographs: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Ernestolapeña, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Similar habitat climate Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the nearest habitat climates are read from the climate they give.

Other Litsea 15 in the reference

Litsea acutivena Litsea acutivena Lauraceae Photo: CC0, author not statedLitsea aestivalis Litsea aestivalis Pondspice Photo: CC BY, Tom FieldLitsea akoensis Litsea akoensis Lauraceae Photo: CC BY, 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi) Litsea auriculata Lauraceae Litsea calicaris Litsea calicaris Lauraceae Photo: CC BY, 大澤風季 ohsawa_FukiLitsea coreana Litsea coreana Sword-leaf litsea Photo: CC BY, りなべるLitsea cubeba Litsea cubeba Mountain-pepper Photo: CC0, author not statedLitsea garciae Litsea garciae Engkala Photo: CC BY, Ong Jyh SengLitsea glutinosa Litsea glutinosa Bolly beech Photo: CC BY-SA, Margaret BurgerLitsea hypophaea Litsea hypophaea Lauraceae Photo: CC0, author not statedLitsea japonica Litsea japonica Lauraceae Photo: CC BY, 如此甚好Litsea monopetala Litsea monopetala Lauraceae Photo: CC0, author not stated all 16 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Litsea neesiana var. corymbifera; Malapoenna glaucescens; Litsea neesiana var. villosa; Malapoenna villosa; Litsea glaucescens var. subcorymbosa and 24 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Lauraceae
Described by
Kunth
Native to
Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Gulf +7
Records
not checked · GBIF's records were not asked: the page has no GBIF key

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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Litsea glaucescens Kunth (plant_name_id 2352407), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
Habitat climate climate not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked, and the habitat climate is read only from them
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 465704-1, POWO 465704-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
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

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