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Sonchus brassicifolius; photograph Flavien Saboureau, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF CC BYFlavien Saboureau, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF

Sonchus brassicifolius S.C.Kim & Mejías

Cabbage tree

Asteraceae · Juan Fernández Is.

No habitat climate
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Sonchus brassicifolius, photograph Matias Adolfo González Tobar, CC0, iNaturalist via GBIFSonchus brassicifolius, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSonchus brassicifolius, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSonchus brassicifolius, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSonchus brassicifolius, photograph Daderot, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsSonchus brassicifolius, photograph Sefirmelk, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 14 photographs ›

Summary

Sonchus brassicifolius, synonym Dendroseris litoralis, is a species of flowering plant in the daisy and sunflower family Asteraceae. It is a small evergreen tree species known as the cabbage tree. It is endemic to the Juan Fernández Islands, which lie in the southeast Pacific, off the west coast of Chile. It is native only to the tiny, volcanic Robinson Crusoe Island, home of the famed Juania australis and many other endemic plants. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Sonchus brassicifolius", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Sonchus

Sonchus is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae and are commonly known as sow thistles. Sowthistles are annual, biennial or perennial herbs, with or without rhizomes and a few are even woody.

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 13 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 13 of the 13 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.
NativeJuan Fernández Is. · 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 marker-33.666, -78.894 · in the densest population, 13 records (100% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 13 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 4 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 3 km away. 4 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 13 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 13 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: Matias Adolfo González Tobar, CC0, iNaturalist via GBIF; Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3); Daderot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Sefirmelk, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Sonchus 23 in the reference

Sonchus acaulis Sonchus acaulis Giant dandelion Photo: CC BY, Rosario DouglasSonchus arvensis Sonchus arvensis Perennial sow-thistle Photo: CC0, author not statedSonchus asper Sonchus asper Spiny sow-thistle Photo: CC BY, 振远 王Sonchus brachylobus Sonchus brachylobus Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, fmunozSonchus bulbosus Sonchus bulbosus Asteraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Josep GestiSonchus canariensis Sonchus canariensis Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Vítor JorgeSonchus congestus Sonchus congestus Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Elizabete Marchante Sonchus crassifolius Asteraceae Sonchus fruticosus Sonchus fruticosus Shrubby Sow-thistle Photo: CC BY, Vítor JorgeSonchus hierrensis Sonchus hierrensis Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Daniel Heras GonzálezSonchus kirkii Sonchus kirkii New Zealand sow thistle Photo: CC BY, John BarklaSonchus leptocephalus Sonchus leptocephalus Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, jeanjacquesgodon all 24 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Dendroseris litoralis. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Asteraceae
Described by
S.C.Kim & Mejías
Native to
Juan Fernández Is.
Wild records
13 in range · 4 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
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2213 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
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 answeredasked 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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