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Coccoloba uvifera (L.) L.

Sea-grape; Jamaican kino; Platterleaf; Shore sea-grape

Polygonaceae · Florida, Mexico Northeast +34

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Coccoloba uvifera, photograph (c) Nathaniel Isabella, some rights reserved (CC BY)Coccoloba uvifera, photograph (c) xanderferret, some rights reserved (CC BY)Coccoloba uvifera, photograph (c) xanderferret, some rights reserved (CC BY)Coccoloba uvifera, photograph (c) Wyatt Sibilia, some rights reserved (CC BY)Coccoloba uvifera, photograph author not stated, no rights reservedCoccoloba uvifera, photograph author not stated, no rights reserved 54 photographs ›
Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
17.7°C
Record low 14.4 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
29°C
Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
1,362mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
25–42DLI
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 May 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

Coccoloba uvifera is a species of tree and flowering plant in the buckwheat family, Polygonaceae. Its common names include seagrape and baygrape. It is native to coastal beaches throughout tropical America and the Caribbean. It has edible fruit, among other uses.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Coccoloba uvifera", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,049 mm of 1,368 mm) falls in May to November, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 26.7 °C against a yearly mean of 25.7 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: November to May.

Rain

1,368 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,049 mm of it May to November. Wettest month September at 193 mm, driest month February at 56 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 976 mm to 1,945 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 1,362 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,368 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 42 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 20, the highest 90th-percentile month 44).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 17.7 °C, the absolute minimum 14.4 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 38.5 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 21.8 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 14.6 °C to 24.3 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 29.2 °C in August (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 17.7 °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 64% 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, with a lapse correction of 0 m or none (the two are recorded alike); 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 Coccoloba uvifera through the yearWarmest months June, July, August and September, mean daily high 29 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low 21.8 °C; 1,368 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.10°15°20°25°30°35°40°38.5° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER14.4° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter050100150200250mm rainDLI 25–42RH 60–64%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 610 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 °C25 / 20–2725 / 21–2825 / 23–2927 / 24–2928 / 26–3029 / 27–3129 / 27–3129 / 28–3129 / 28–3028 / 27–2927 / 24–2826 / 22–28
Night °C22 / 15–2422 / 15–2422 / 17–2523 / 19–2524 / 22–2625 / 24–2626 / 25–2726 / 25–2726 / 24–2725 / 22–2624 / 19–2623 / 16–25
Rain mm62 / 35–11856 / 26–8363 / 18–10467 / 29–127113 / 56–184163 / 77–232150 / 87–221174 / 100–241193 / 131–250153 / 83–237103 / 49–22971 / 39–162
DLI27 / 22–3332 / 27–3737 / 33–4142 / 39–4442 / 40–4441 / 38–4341 / 38–4340 / 35–4235 / 31–3931 / 27–3527 / 23–3125 / 20–31
RH %60 / 58–6460 / 58–6360 / 58–6361 / 58–6563 / 59–6664 / 62–6664 / 62–6664 / 62–6664 / 63–6663 / 60–6761 / 59–6661 / 58–65
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 610 grid cells on land that hold in-range records (1261 records in those cells; 108 more cells hold records but no land by the elevation layer, so those records sit at sea and the cells are left out), 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 1427:1760 (18.625, -91.975). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 14.4 °C, 1st-percentile night 17.7 °C, 99th-percentile day 38.5 °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 610 distinct grid cells holding 1261 of the 1515 in-range records (108 further cells with records at sea, by the elevation layer, left out); extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1427:1760 (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 18.50_-91.875, lapse-corrected 0 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 3 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.
NativeFlorida, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Mexico Southeast, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Aruba, Bahamas, Bermuda, Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is. AB Ant, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Turks-Caicos Is., Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is., French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru · introduced: Guinea-Bissau, Mauritius, Réunion, Thailand, Vietnam, Solomon Is., Gilbert Is., New Caledonia, Phoenix Is., Cook Is., Line Is., Marquesas, Pitcairn Is., Society Is., Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Marianas, Marshall Is., Wake I. · 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 marker26.356, -80.284 · in the densest population, 642 records (40% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 1608 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 1261 of them in the land cells it reads, of 1515 placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 577 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 93 km away. 157 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 93 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 1608 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: (c) Nathaniel Isabella, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) xanderferret, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Wyatt Sibilia, some rights reserved (CC BY); author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (2).

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

Ernodea littoralis Ernodea littoralis Coughbush Photo: CC BY, Tom FieldCanavalia rosea Canavalia rosea Bay-bean Photo: CC BY, jk6000Guettarda scabra Guettarda scabra Wild guave Photo: CC BY, Tom FieldLaguncularia racemosa Laguncularia racemosa White mangrove Photo: CC BY, Gaston Carvallo B.Conocarpus erectus Conocarpus erectus Button mangrove Photo: CC BY, Alison NorthupCanella winterana Canella winterana Wild cinnamon Photo: CC0, author not stated

Other Coccoloba 16 in the reference

Coccoloba acuminata Coccoloba acuminata Polygonaceae Photo: CC BY, AitorCoccoloba alnifolia Coccoloba alnifolia Polygonaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedCoccoloba barbadensis Coccoloba barbadensis Polygonaceae Photo: CC BY, Douglas Caro LopezCoccoloba caracasana Coccoloba caracasana Polygonaceae Photo: CC BY, Alexis López HernándezCoccoloba diversifolia Coccoloba diversifolia Pigeon plum Photo: CC BY, Kaden SloneCoccoloba gigantifolia Coccoloba gigantifolia Polygonaceae Photo: CC BY, A-G and I-K: C.A. Cid Ferreira and R.… Coccoloba guaranitica Polygonaceae Coccoloba × hybrida Coccoloba × hybrida Polygonaceae Photo: CC BY, Sara PiotterCoccoloba krugii Coccoloba krugii Whitewood Photo: CC BY, Mario GuzmánCoccoloba latifolia Coccoloba latifolia Polygonaceae Photo: CC BY, fmunozCoccoloba microstachya Coccoloba microstachya Puckhout Photo: CC BY-SA, Kurt MillerCoccoloba peltata Coccoloba peltata Polygonaceae Photo: Public domain, Daderot all 17 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Coccolobis uvifera; Guaiabara uvifera; Polygonum uviferum. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Polygonaceae
Described by
(L.) L.
Native to
Florida, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Gulf +33
Wild records
1608 in range · 577 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 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
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; 83 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (46 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 37 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-21
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-21NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 18.50_-91.875, lapse-corrected 0 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21
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 58 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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