Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_citharexylum_caudatum
Fiddlewood
Citharexylum caudatum
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About Fiddlewood
Citharexylum caudatum is a tree treated as naturalized in Hawaiʻi by Bishop Museum’s Plants of Hawaiʻi account. Birds disperse its fruits, allowing movement from plantings into disturbed and mesic lowland forest. Bishop Museum’s 2025 checklist documents naturalized presence on Kauaʻi; current extent remains unassessed.
Kauaʻi evidence
Bishop Museum 2025 Checklist wide: Taxon=Citharexylum caudatum; Status=nat; K=K. Identification and ecological statements have the separately linked reviewed sources. The checklist establishes documented island presence; it does not establish current abundance or invasion extent.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Citharexylum caudatum
- Common names
- Fiddlewood
- Other names
- juniperberry · Fiddlewood · tail fiddlewood · Citharexylum caudatum
- Record type
- Species or taxonomic group
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Conservation priority; formal rank not listed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-05
- Evidence limits
- Current extent and population trajectory require refreshed surveys; public occurrence is island level only.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Mesic lowlands · Disturbed forest
- Food and resource needs
- Light, water, nutrients, and suitable soil or substrate
- Reproduction
- Viable propagules and suitable establishment conditions
- Shelter
- Suitable soil, substrate, and vegetation structure
- Growth form
- Tree
Threats and conservation
- Threats
- Invasive pressure
- Conservation actions
- Control in restoration units
- Monitoring
- Control in restoration units
- Data gaps
- Additional ecological and conservation citations are recommended
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not assessed
- Seasonal description
- Citharexylum caudatum is a tree treated as naturalized in Hawaiʻi by Bishop Museum’s Plants of Hawaiʻi account. Birds disperse its fruits, allowing movement from plantings into disturbed and mesic lowland forest. Bishop Museum’s 2025 checklist documents naturalized presence on Kauaʻi; current extent remains unassessed.
