At a glance
- Jan, shaded
- Feb, shaded
- Mar, shaded, under 5 mm of rain
- Apr, shaded, under 5 mm of rain
- May, shaded, under 5 mm of rain
- Jun, under 5 mm of rain
- Jul
- Aug, under 5 mm of rain
- Sep, under 5 mm of rain
- Oct, under 5 mm of rain
- Nov
- Dec, shaded
From few records: 4 records in 3 grid cells. The records.
Cultivation
Seasons
Rain at the habitat is 59 mm in the median year (across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Under 120 mm the rain rule reads no rainy season, and the growing-season rule infers nothing from it. The temperature rule reads the cooler six months as June to November. Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: December to May.
Rain
59 mm in the median year at the habitat. Wettest month July at 9 mm, driest months (3 at 3 mm); 7 months under 5 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 52 mm to 60 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 59 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 59 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, southern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.
Light
Open sky over the habitat: 28 to 57 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 26, the highest 90th-percentile month 57).
Warmth and air
Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 12.6 °C in August and September (across the grid cells of the range 11.7 °C to 13.2 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 21.3 °C in February (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: none read. The nearest figure is 12.6 °C, the coldest month's mean nightly low, August and September, in the median year (CHELSA); a month's mean of its nightly lows is warmer than the nights a floor is read from. The daily extremes were read at a weather cell that is mostly sea and are not used.
Relative humidity at the habitat: 54 to 65% 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. CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. No cold floor is read without a daily extremes series; the coldest month's mean nightly low named in its sentence is not one. 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 4 records in 3 grid cells; a page says so under 12 records or 5 cells, and shows the figures as read.
Habitat months, southern hemisphere
Mean daily high from 17 °C in Jul, Aug and Sep to 21 °C in Jan, Feb and Mar; mean nightly low from 13 °C in Jul, Aug, Sep and Oct to 17 °C in Jan, Feb and Mar. The cold quarter, Jul to Sep, is the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low, centred on the 4 months in a row that tie for it. 59 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added), the wettest month Jul. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 3 habitat cells. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 21 / 21–22 | 21 / 21–22 | 21 / 20–21 | 19 / 19–20 | 18 / 18–19 | 18 / 18–19 | 17 / 17–18 | 17 / 17–18 | 17 / 17–18 | 18 / 17–18 | 19 / 18–19 | 20 / 20–20 |
| Night °C | 17 / 15–17 | 17 / 16–17 | 17 / 15–17 | 16 / 14–16 | 14 / 13–15 | 14 / 12–14 | 13 / 12–13 | 13 / 12–13 | 13 / 12–13 | 13 / 12–13 | 14 / 13–14 | 15 / 14–16 |
| Rain mm | 6 / 5–6 | 4 / 3–4 | 4 / 3–4 | 3 / 2–3 | 6 / 5–6 | 8 / 7–9 | 9 / 8–9 | 5 / 4–5 | 4 / 3–4 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| DLI | 56 / 55–56 | 52 / 52–53 | 46 / 45–47 | 39 / 37–40 | 31 / 29–32 | 28 / 26–29 | 29 / 28–30 | 36 / 34–37 | 44 / 43–45 | 51 / 51–52 | 56 / 56–57 | 57 / 57–57 |
| RH % | 65 / 63–65 | 65 / 63–65 | 64 / 61–64 | 61 / 57–62 | 58 / 53–59 | 54 / 50–55 | 54 / 49–55 | 55 / 50–56 | 57 / 52–59 | 59 / 54–61 | 61 / 57–63 | 63 / 60–64 |
The daily extremes were read at a NASA POWER cell that is 36% land: neither it nor the next candidates whose coldest month's mean nightly low is within 2 °C of the median across cells sit in a POWER cell that is mostly land, and the rule reads a cold floor only from a cell that is mostly land, so none is read for this species. Nor is the coldest month's mean nightly low taken as one: it is a mean of a month's lows, not its coldest night. What that cell gave over 44 years: absolute minimum 10.0 °C, 1st-percentile night 12.4 °C, 99th-percentile day 26.1 °C.
How this section is made
Natural habitat
How this section is made
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The record
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
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