Tereso Hernández Morales, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF · observed growing wild

Ehretia tinifolia L.

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Summary

Ehretia tinifolia is a woody, perennial tree, usually 0.5 to 3 m in height, branched from the base, from reddish-brown to red-purple bark, exfoliating ; The leaves are coriaceous, elliptic, from 1 to 3.3 cm long. The flower is urceolate, white to Mexican pink and grouped in clusters of five to eight flowers. The plant can reproduce vegetatively from branches that are buried, but this type of reproduction is rare.

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About the genus · Ehretia

Ehretia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ehretiaceae. It contains 66 species native to the tropics and subtropics of the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Papuasia, and Australia. The generic name honors German botanical illustrator Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708–1770).

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Family

Ehretiaceae

Described by

Native to

Vietnam, Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast +13

Wild records

1096 in range· 758 open

At a glance

Warmest month

33°C

May, mean day; nights 23 °C (CHELSA)

Rain

1127mm/yr

11 wet months · peak Sep 207 mm (CHELSA)

Light

25–42DLI

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, June to October in the northern hemisphere (June to October at the habitat, northern). Habitat rain 1127 mm a year, wettest September at 207 mm, driest March at 21 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 25 to 42 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 13.4 °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 Ehretia campestris Salisb.; Ehretia linifolia J.F.Gmel.; Ehretia longifolia Miers; Ehretia sulcata Miers; Ehretia tenuifolia Houtt. and 1 more.

Cultivation

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

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 (859 mm of 1127 mm) falls in June to October, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 27.1 °C against a yearly mean of 25.6 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: December to April.

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 1127 mm a year, wettest September at 207 mm, driest March at 21 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1127 mm a year at the habitat, 859 mm of it June to October. Wettest month September at 207 mm, driest March at 21 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 774 mm to 1653 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern 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: 25 to 42 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 25 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 23, the highest 90th-percentile month 49).

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 13.4 °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 13.4 °C, the absolute minimum 10.3 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 38.2 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 18.6 °C in January (across the envelope cells 11.4 °C to 20.8 °C), warmest day 32.7 °C in May (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 13.4 °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: 57 to 65% 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

day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 696 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

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Day °C	27 / 23–30	28 / 24–31	30 / 26–33	32 / 27–35	33 / 28–36	31 / 28–34	31 / 26–34	31 / 26–34	30 / 26–33	29 / 25–31	28 / 24–30	27 / 23–29
Night °C	19 / 11–21	19 / 12–21	20 / 13–22	22 / 16–23	23 / 18–25	24 / 18–25	24 / 18–25	24 / 18–25	23 / 18–25	22 / 16–24	21 / 14–23	19 / 12–22
Rain mm	31 / 9–59	25 / 7–51	21 / 4–55	31 / 3–70	81 / 10–144	171 / 72–267	173 / 115–290	185 / 127–289	207 / 146–315	123 / 64–188	45 / 13–98	34 / 6–59
DLI	26 / 25–34	31 / 29–38	37 / 35–44	42 / 39–48	41 / 39–49	38 / 35–43	39 / 35–43	38 / 34–41	33 / 31–37	31 / 29–34	28 / 26–33	25 / 23–32
RH %	59 / 52–64	58 / 50–64	57 / 48–62	57 / 47–62	58 / 49–64	63 / 56–67	63 / 58–67	63 / 59–68	65 / 62–69	63 / 58–67	61 / 54–66	60 / 53–65

Each figure is the median across the 696 grid cells holding the 1091 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 1385:1832 (20.725, -88.375). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 10.3 °C, 1st-percentile night 13.4 °C, 99th-percentile day 38.2 °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 696 distinct grid cells holding the 1091 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1385:1832 (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 20.50_-88.125, lapse-corrected +2 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 28 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.

NativeVietnam, Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Mexico Southeast, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Southwest Caribbean

Kew's description“tree” · “seasonally dry tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Map marker20.327, -89.454 · in the densest population, 747 records (68% of those in range)

Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 1096 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 758 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 285 km away. 13 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 5 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 4° block of the 1096 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Photographs: Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (2); Carlos Domínguez-Rodríguez, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (3).

Photographs: iNaturalist 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 Ehretia tinifolia, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Phenolic Profiles and Biological Activities of Extracts from Edible Wild Fruits Ehretia tinifolia and Sideroxylon lanuginosum

Imelda N. Monroy-García, Irma Edith Carranza‐Torres, Pilar Carranza‐Rosales, María Oyón-Ardoiz (2021) · Foods

Anatomía y usos de la madera de siete árboles tropicales de México

Silvia Rebollar, Alejandra Quintanar (1969) · Revista de Biología Tropical

Inhibitory Effects of Ehretia tinifolia Extract on the Excessive Oxidative and Inflammatory Responses in Lipopolysaccharide-Stimulated Mouse Kupffer Cells

Jae Sung Lim, Sung Ho Lee, Hyosuk Yun, Da Young Lee (2023) · Antioxidants

Physicochemical, nutritional, and antioxidant characteristics of the fruit of Ehretia tinifolia

Juan Fernando Pío-León, Sylvia Páz Díaz‐Camacho, Mercedes G. López, Julio Montes‐Ávila (2012) · Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad

Eliminación de la contaminación por el bosque urbano en Las Palmas, Colima, México

Sunashi Elizabeth Vázquez Arceo, María del Pilar Ramírez Rivera, Santiago Arceo Díaz, J. Jesús Solís Enríquez (2023) · Madera y Bosques

Effect of Incorporating Multipurpose-Trees (MPTs) Foliage in a Basal Ration of Poor-QualityPennisetum purpureumHay Fed to Pelibuey Sheep

Laura Ramírez-Cancino, Luis Ramírez-Avilés, Juan Carlos Kú-Vera (2000) · Journal of Applied Animal Research

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