Canarium odontophyllum Miq.
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From few records: 3 records in 3 grid cells. The records.
Summary
Canarium odontophyllum, also referred to as the Borneo olive, is a fruit-bearing tree of the genus Canarium in the family Burseraceae. Native to Borneo, where it is locally known as dabai in Sarawak and kembayau in Sabah and Brunei. Its fruit is a prized seasonal delicacy in Sarawak, which earned the fruit a dedicated festival - Pesta Dabai - which is held annually since 2018 in Song, Sarawak.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Canarium odontophyllum", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Seasons
The rain rule reads no short rainy season: 70% of the median year's rain (2,754 mm of 3,723 mm) takes 8 months, September to April. Mean temperature moves 0.8 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere. The habitat lies within 10° of the equator, where the shift rule does not apply, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.
Rain
3,723 mm in the median year at the habitat, 2,754 mm of it September to April. Wettest month January at 434 mm, driest month July at 225 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 2,899 mm to 4,424 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 3,945 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 3,723 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: 29 to 35 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 28, the highest 90th-percentile month 36).
Warmth and air
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 21.8 °C, the absolute minimum 20.2 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 31.7 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 22.2 °C in July and August (across the grid cells of the range 20.0 °C to 22.4 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 30.4 °C in September (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 21.8 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).
Relative humidity at the habitat: 67 to 72% 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 +23 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
From few records: this habitat climate is read from 3 records in 3 grid cells; a page says so under 12 records or 5 cells, and shows the figures as read.
Habitat months, northern hemisphere
Mean daily high from 29 °C in Jan, Feb, May, Jun, Jul and Dec to 30 °C in Mar, Apr, Aug, Sep, Oct and Nov; mean nightly low from 22 °C in Jan, Feb, Jul, Aug, Sep and Dec to 23 °C in Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Oct and Nov. The cold quarter, Jun to Aug, is the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low, around the first of the 6 months that tie for it. 3,723 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added), the wettest month Jan. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 3 habitat cells. Over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER) the absolute minimum was 20.2 °C and the 99th-percentile day 31.7 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.
Figures by month
| Figure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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| Day °C | 29 / 28–29 | 29 / 28–29 | 30 / 29–30 | 30 / 29–30 | 29 / 29–30 | 29 / 29–30 | 29 / 28–30 | 30 / 29–31 | 30 / 29–30 | 30 / 28–30 | 30 / 28–30 | 29 / 28–29 |
| Night °C | 22 / 20–23 | 22 / 20–23 | 23 / 20–23 | 23 / 21–23 | 23 / 21–23 | 23 / 20–23 | 22 / 20–22 | 22 / 20–23 | 22 / 20–23 | 23 / 20–23 | 23 / 20–23 | 22 / 20–23 |
| Rain mm | 434 / 299–679 | 322 / 256–501 | 356 / 302–371 | 307 / 270–372 | 259 / 248–323 | 234 / 215–259 | 225 / 197–243 | 251 / 160–252 | 295 / 177–301 | 308 / 191–355 | 343 / 255–388 | 389 / 286–515 |
| DLI | 30 / 29–32 | 32 / 31–34 | 33 / 33–36 | 34 / 31–36 | 33 / 30–35 | 33 / 30–34 | 34 / 31–35 | 35 / 34–36 | 35 / 34–36 | 34 / 32–34 | 31 / 30–32 | 29 / 28–31 |
| RH % | 72 / 70–72 | 71 / 70–72 | 72 / 70–72 | 71 / 69–73 | 71 / 69–73 | 69 / 68–71 | 68 / 67–70 | 67 / 67–68 | 68 / 67–69 | 70 / 68–71 | 71 / 71–72 | 72 / 71–73 |
How this section is made
Natural habitat
How this section is made
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The record
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 2026-10-21
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