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Aristolochia arborea Linden

Aristolochiaceae · Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast +2

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Aristolochia arborea, photograph Kurt Stüber, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsAristolochia arborea, photograph Michael Wolf, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsAristolochia arborea, photograph T.Voekler, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsAristolochia arborea, photograph Cymothoa exigua, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsAristolochia arborea, photograph Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia CommonsAristolochia arborea, photograph Mirosch01, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12 photographs ›
Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
13.7°C
Record low 10.5 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
32°C
May at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
2,671mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
25–41DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in your months, northern hemisphere
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
Wet summers: the rain comes June to November, read as a summer growing season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Aristolochia arborea is a species of perennial plant in the family Aristolochiaceae. It is found from Mexico through Guatemala and El Salvador .

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Aristolochia arborea", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Aristolochia

Aristolochia is a large plant genus with over 500 species that is the type genus of the family Aristolochiaceae. Its members are commonly known as birthwort, pipevine or Dutchman's pipe and are widespread and occur in diverse climates. Some species, like A. utriformis and A. westlandii, are threatened with extinction.

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

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,841 mm of 2,477 mm) falls in June to November, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 25.5 °C against a yearly mean of 24.7 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: December to May.

Rain

2,477 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,841 mm of it June to November. Wettest month September at 403 mm, driest month March at 65 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,845 mm to 3,811 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 2,671 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 2,477 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 25 to 41 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 21, the highest 90th-percentile month 43).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 13.7 °C, the absolute minimum 10.5 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 40.5 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 17.4 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 16.4 °C to 19.6 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 31.8 °C in May (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 13.7 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 60 to 69% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected -230 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat months, northern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Aristolochia arborea through the yearWarmest month May, mean daily high 32 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low 17.4 °C; 2,477 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA; the extremes at the edge from NASA POWER. Habitat months, northern hemisphere.5°10°15°20°25°30°35°40°45°40.5° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER10.5° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0200400600800mm rainDLI 25–41RH 60–69%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 21 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low extremes over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, from NASA POWER, marked at the edge, in no month DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C26 / 24–2727 / 26–2929 / 27–3231 / 27–3432 / 27–3530 / 26–3330 / 25–3230 / 25–3229 / 25–3128 / 25–2927 / 25–2826 / 24–27
Night °C17 / 16–2018 / 17–2019 / 18–2221 / 19–2422 / 19–2522 / 19–2522 / 19–2422 / 19–2422 / 19–2421 / 18–2319 / 18–2218 / 17–20
Rain mm113 / 21–194103 / 34–18565 / 30–9266 / 36–91147 / 119–191316 / 252–428254 / 181–458328 / 271–530403 / 346–619349 / 227–466191 / 133–264142 / 46–236
DLI26 / 22–3430 / 27–3837 / 35–4041 / 40–4340 / 38–4335 / 32–3838 / 30–4137 / 30–3932 / 27–3329 / 25–3127 / 24–3225 / 21–32
RH %66 / 58–6964 / 58–6760 / 57–6260 / 56–6261 / 57–6766 / 63–6965 / 63–7067 / 63–7169 / 67–7168 / 65–7067 / 62–6967 / 59–69
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 21 grid cells holding the 31 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 1449:1742 (17.525, -92.875). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 10.5 °C, 1st-percentile night 13.7 °C, 99th-percentile day 40.5 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 21 distinct grid cells holding 31 of the 31 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1449:1742 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 17.50_-93.125, lapse-corrected -230 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 124 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 3589040 (Aristolochia arborea Linden, 75 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeMexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Belize, Guatemala · 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 marker17.549, -92.931 · in the densest population, 35 records (81% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 43 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 31 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 36 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 12 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.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 3589040 (Aristolochia arborea Linden): Kew's file holds it as Aristolochia arborea Linden (accepted); 75 records, from GBIF's download.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 43 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: Kurt Stüber, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Michael Wolf, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; T.Voekler, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Cymothoa exigua, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons; Mirosch01, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Dorstenia lindeniana Moraceae Ceratozamia becerrae Zamiaceae Pitcairnia punicea Pitcairnia punicea Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Daniel Pineda VeraHeliconia aurantiaca Heliconia aurantiaca Heliconiaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedAndrolepis skinneri Androlepis skinneri Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, jlsnaddonHeliconia uxpanapensis Heliconia uxpanapensis Heliconiaceae Photo: CC BY, Oscar Israel Rodríguez Ortiz

Other Aristolochia 77 in the reference

Aristolochia acuminata Aristolochia acuminata Indian birthwort Photo: CC BY, Cheongweei GanAristolochia anguicida Aristolochia anguicida Harlequin dutchman's pipe Photo: CC BY, Skjold SøndergaardAristolochia arcuata Aristolochia arcuata Aristolochiaceae Photo: CC BY, Celso Henrique Varela RiosAristolochia argentina Aristolochia argentina Aristolochiaceae Photo: CC BY, Tomás TamagnoAristolochia australopithecurus Aristolochia australopithecurus Cairns Birdwing Butterfly plant Photo: CC0, Poyt448 Peter WoodardAristolochia baetica Aristolochia baetica Andalusian Dutchman's Pipe Photo: CC0, Alison Westwood Aristolochia bidoupensis Aristolochiaceae Aristolochia bottae Botta's birthwort Aristolochia bracteolata Aristolochia bracteolata Aristolochiaceae Photo: CC0, Jaya Rakesh Aristolochia caulialata Aristolochiaceae Aristolochia cauliflora Aristolochia cauliflora Aristolochiaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Danny S.Aristolochia clematitis Aristolochia clematitis Birthwort Photo: CC BY-SA, eiblmatthias6 all 78 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Isotrema arboreum. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

IPNIPOWOWikidataWFOWikipedia

The record

Family
Aristolochiaceae
Described by
Linden
Native to
Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Belize +1
Wild records
43 in range · 36 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
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Aristolochia arborea Linden (plant_name_id 2651161), 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
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 75 records of GBIF's key 3589040, Aristolochia arborea Linden (Kew's file holds it as Aristolochia arborea Linden (accepted)): the GBIF download; 12 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (12 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 17.50_-93.125, lapse-corrected -230 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 92742-1, POWO 92742-1
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

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 17 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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