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Corymbia citriodora (Hook.) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson

Kinini, Lemonscented Gum, citron-scent gum, lemon-scent gum

Climate known 81 photographs
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Summary

Corymbia citriodora, commonly known as lemon-scented gum and other common names, is a species of tall tree that is endemic to north-eastern Australia. It has smooth white to pink bark, narrow lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three, white flowers and urn-shaped or barrel-shaped fruit.

Text from Wikipedia, “Corymbia citriodora”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Corymbia

Corymbia, commonly known as bloodwoods, is a genus of about one hundred species of tree that, along with Eucalyptus, Angophora and several smaller groups, are referred to as eucalypts. Until 1990, corymbias were included in the genus Eucalyptus and there is still considerable disagreement among botanists as to whether separating them is valid. As of January 2020, Corymbia is an accepted name at the Australian Plant Census.

Text from Wikipedia, “Corymbia”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Myrtaceae
Described by
(Hook.) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson
Native to
New South Wales, Queensland
Wild records
903 in range· 770 open

At a glance

Warmest month
30°C
Jan, mean day; nights 20 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
905mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Feb 146 mm (CHELSA)
Light
22–42DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: a summer growing season, April to September in the northern hemisphere (October to March at the habitat, southern). Habitat rain 905 mm a year, wettest February at 146 mm, driest August at 33 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 22 to 42 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 1.7 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Corymbia citriodora subsp. variegata (F.Muell.) A.R.Bean & M.W.Mc Donald; Corymbia variegata (F.Muell.) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson; Eucalyptus citriodora Hook.; Eucalyptus maculata var. citriodora (Hook.) F.M.Bailey; Eucalyptus maculata var. citriodora (Hook.) L.H.Bailey and 2 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: a summer growing season, April to September in the northern hemisphere (October to March at the habitat, southern).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the year's rain (638 mm of 905 mm) falls in October to March, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 23.3 °C against a yearly mean of 19.8 °C). Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: April to September.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: 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 gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 905 mm a year, wettest February at 146 mm, driest August at 33 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

905 mm a year at the habitat, 638 mm of it October to March. Wettest month February at 146 mm, driest August at 33 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 681 mm to 1303 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

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

Light Open sky over the habitat: 22 to 42 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 22 to 42 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 19, the highest 90th-percentile month 45).

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.

Warmth and air Cold floor 1.7 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 1.7 °C, the absolute minimum -2.2 °C, 27 frost nights in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 38.7 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 8.7 °C in July (across the envelope cells 5.9 °C to 11.9 °C), warmest day 29.5 °C in January (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 1.7 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 55 to 61% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 19 °C in Jul to 30 °C in Jan; mean night from 9 °C in Jul to 20 °C in Jan. The cold quarter, Jun to Aug, is the three months around the coldest night. 905 mm of rain a year, most in Feb. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 618 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -2.2 °C and the 99th-percentile day 38.7 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-10°10°20°30°40°frost38.7° 99th-percentile day (undated)-2.2° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter050100150200250mm rainDLI 22–42RH 55–61 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 618 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C30 / 27–3229 / 26–3128 / 25–3025 / 22–2722 / 19–2419 / 17–2119 / 17–2121 / 18–2324 / 22–2627 / 24–2928 / 25–3030 / 26–31
Night °C20 / 18–2220 / 18–2218 / 17–2016 / 14–1813 / 10–1610 / 7–139 / 6–1210 / 7–1312 / 10–1515 / 13–1717 / 15–1919 / 17–21
Rain mm115 / 82–208146 / 93–21494 / 53–16062 / 41–11759 / 39–9844 / 31–7135 / 24–5133 / 23–4934 / 21–4566 / 39–8390 / 75–118127 / 96–151
DLI40 / 39–4436 / 34–3934 / 31–3728 / 26–3123 / 21–2622 / 19–2423 / 21–2629 / 27–3136 / 34–3940 / 38–4341 / 39–4442 / 40–45
RH %60 / 54–6461 / 56–6560 / 54–6459 / 54–6359 / 55–6257 / 55–6056 / 54–5955 / 51–5855 / 50–5856 / 50–5958 / 52–6159 / 53–62

Each figure is the median across the 618 grid cells holding the 859 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 2318:6621 (-25.925, 151.075). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -2.2 °C, 1st-percentile night 1.7 °C, 99th-percentile day 38.7 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 618 distinct grid cells holding the 859 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2318:6621 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -26.00_151.250, lapse-corrected +2 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 309 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 every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeNew South Wales, Queensland· introduced: Morocco, Canary Is., Burkina, Gambia, The, Guinea-Bissau, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Comoros, China South-Central, China Southeast, Assam, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Easter Is., Society Is., Wake I., Hawaii, California, El Salvador, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago
Kew's description“tree” · “seasonally dry tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker-25.637, 152.427 · in the densest population, 643 records (71% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 903 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 770 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 50 km away. 139 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 44 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 903 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Kevin Faccenda, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Greg Tasney, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (4); (c) Татьяна Максимова, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Caleb Catto, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2).

Photographs: iNaturalist and Wikimedia Commons did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Corymbia citriodora, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Fungal Planet description sheets: 785– 867
P.W. Crous, Janet Jennifer Luangsa-ard, Michael J. Wingfield, Angus J. Carnegie (2018) · Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi
PMD, a Registered Botanical Mosquito Repellent with Deet-Like Efficacy
Scott P. Carroll, Jenella E. Loye (2006) · Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association
Repellency of live potted plants against Anopheles gambiae from human baits in semi-field experimental huts.
Aklilu Seyoum, Ephantus W. Kabiru, Wilber Lwande, Gerry F. Killeen (2002) · American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Field efficacy of thermally expelled or live potted repellent plants against African malaria vectors in western Kenya
Aklilu Seyoum, Gerry F. Killeen, Ephantus W. Kabiru, Bart GJ Knols (2003) · Tropical Medicine & International Health
Fumigant Antifungal Activity ofCorymbia citriodoraandCymbopogon nardusEssential Oils and Citronellal against Three Fungal Species
Raimundo Wagner de Souza Aguiar, Márcio Akio Ootani, Sérgio Donizeti Ascêncio, Talita Pereira de Souza Ferreira (2014) · The Scientific World JOURNAL
Bioactivity of essential oils extracted from Cupressus macrocarpa branchlets and Corymbia citriodora leaves grown in Egypt
Mohamed Z. M. Salem, Hosam O. Elansary, Hayssam M. Ali, Ahmed A. A. El‐Settawy (2018) · BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine
DIFFERENT PLANT BIOMASS CHARACTERIZATIONS FOR BIOCHAR PRODUCTION
Taís Regina Lima Abreu Veiga, José Tarcísio Lima, Anelise Lima de Abreu Dessimoni, Matheus Felipe Freire Pego (2017) · CERNE

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Corymbia 2 in the reference

History & registers

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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 73 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.