Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_prunus_campanulata
Taiwan Cherry
Prunus campanulata
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About Taiwan Cherry
Taiwan Cherry (Prunus campanulata) is an introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi by Bishop Museum’s 2025 checklist and the 2026 Smithsonian checklist. Its checklist classification is naturalized; current extent is unassessed. Native from the eastern Himalaya through southern China and Vietnam to Taiwan, chiefly in montane and temperate forest margins. Birds can disperse the small drupes. Bishop Museum and Smithsonian document naturalized Kauaʻi occurrence, but current distribution and regeneration are unmeasured.
Kauaʻi evidence
Taxonomic identity, tree form, diagnostic morphology and island occurrence use the linked reviewed sources. Historical planting, cultivation, naturalization and invasive status are separate. Generated imagery is not occurrence evidence.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Prunus campanulata
- Common names
- Taiwan Cherry · Bellflower cherry
- Other names
- Prunus campanulata · Taiwan cherry · Bellflower cherry · Cerasus campanulata
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-06
- Evidence limits
- Present island-wide abundance, occupied habitat, recruitment, population trend, and ecological effects have not been quantified; no invasive severity is inferred from checklist or forestry status.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Flowers emerge on short spurs and require pollination; one-seeded drupes are available to fruit-eating birds. Local pollinators, dispersers, flowering period, and seedling recruitment are unknown.
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Tree
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Not yet assessed
- Data gaps
- Current population extent and trajectory · Additional species-specific ecological and conservation sources
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- Taiwan Cherry (Prunus campanulata) is an introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi by Bishop Museum’s 2025 checklist and the 2026 Smithsonian checklist. Its checklist classification is naturalized; current extent is unassessed. Native from the eastern Himalaya through southern China and Vietnam to Taiwan, chiefly in montane and temperate forest margins. Birds can disperse the small drupes. Bishop Museum and Smithsonian document naturalized Kauaʻi occurrence, but current distribution and regeneration are unmeasured.
Sources and further reading
- https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:729533-1
- https://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200010641
- https://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/publications/pdf/tr75.pdf
- https://editedimages.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Imadaetal.2025Hawaiianvascularplants.xlsx
- https://doi.org/10.5479/si.32124043