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Eugenia speciosa Cambess.

Myrtaceae · Bolivia, Brazil West-Central +5

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
7.4°C
Record low 3.2 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
28°C
Feb at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
1,489mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
20–38DLI
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 March to September (September to March at the habitat), read as a summer growing season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

About the genus · Eugenia

Eugenia is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. It has a worldwide, although highly uneven, distribution in tropical and subtropical regions. The bulk of the approximately 1,100 species occur in the New World tropics, especially in the eastern Brazil's northern Andes, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic Forest. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Eugenia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,127 mm of 1,576 mm) falls in September to March, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 23.1 °C against a yearly mean of 21.9 °C). Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: March to September.

Rain

1,576 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,127 mm of it September to March. Wettest month January at 206 mm, driest month August at 65 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,351 mm to 1,922 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 1,489 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,576 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: 20 to 38 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 17, the highest 90th-percentile month 43).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 7.4 °C, the absolute minimum 3.2 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 33.7 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 14.8 °C in July (across the grid cells of the range 12.3 °C to 19.2 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 27.8 °C in February (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 7.4 °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: 63 to 66% 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 -187 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

Habitat months, southern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Eugenia speciosa through the yearWarmest month February, mean daily high 28 °C; coldest month July, mean nightly low 14.8 °C; 1,576 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, southern hemisphere.0°10°20°30°40°33.7° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER3.2° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter050100150200250300mm rainDLI 20–38RH 63–66%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 15 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 °C27 / 26–2928 / 26–2927 / 25–2825 / 24–2723 / 21–2523 / 19–2422 / 18–2422 / 19–2423 / 19–2523 / 21–2725 / 23–2826 / 25–28
Night °C23 / 21–2423 / 21–2523 / 20–2421 / 18–2318 / 15–2116 / 13–2015 / 12–1915 / 13–1917 / 15–2019 / 16–2020 / 18–2222 / 20–23
Rain mm206 / 138–265162 / 121–216166 / 127–220123 / 83–168103 / 57–13977 / 35–9781 / 35–12465 / 33–101127 / 70–145127 / 108–164151 / 119–205188 / 114–226
DLI38 / 36–4238 / 36–3933 / 31–3428 / 24–3022 / 20–2520 / 17–2321 / 18–2426 / 22–2829 / 25–3134 / 31–3537 / 34–4038 / 36–43
RH %65 / 62–7066 / 62–6965 / 62–7065 / 62–6865 / 62–6664 / 61–6663 / 60–6664 / 59–6765 / 59–6665 / 61–6865 / 60–6965 / 61–70
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 15 grid cells holding the 19 in-range records, 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 2355:2629 (-27.775, -48.525). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 3.2 °C, 1st-percentile night 7.4 °C, 99th-percentile day 33.7 °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 15 distinct grid cells holding 19 of the 19 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2355:2629 (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 -28.00_-48.750, lapse-corrected -187 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 105 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.
NativeBolivia, Brazil West-Central, Brazil Southeast, Brazil South, Argentina Northeast, Paraguay, Uruguay · 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 marker-26.559, -49.371 · in the densest population, 127 records (75% 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 169 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 19 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 148 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 20 km away. 6 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 150 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 inside the densest 4° block of the 169 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) Gabriel Fernandes, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4); (c) Bruno Siqueira, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) JG, some rights reserved (CC BY).

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

Rhipsalis grandiflora Rhipsalis grandiflora Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Diogo LuizSchwartzia brasiliensis Schwartzia brasiliensis Grab-foot Photo: CC BY-SA, pedrogcoscarelli Philodendron corcovadense Araceae Solanum capsicoides Solanum capsicoides Cockroach berry Photo: CC BY, aforest_twPhilodendron martianum Philodendron martianum Araceae Photo: CC BY, topeunaAechmea nudicaulis Aechmea nudicaulis Nakedstem livingvase Photo: CC BY-SA, Shiva Pires

Other Eugenia 45 in the reference

Eugenia astringens Eugenia astringens Myrtaceae Photo: CC BY, Diogo LuizEugenia axillaris Eugenia axillaris White stopper Photo: CC BY, Kristály Cravens-LiszakEugenia azeda Eugenia azeda Myrtaceae Photo: CC BY, Thomaz de Carvalho CalladoEugenia biflora Eugenia biflora Blackrodwood Photo: CC BY, Alexis López HernándezEugenia brasiliensis Eugenia brasiliensis Grumichama Photo: CC BY, fmunozEugenia bunchosiifolia Eugenia bunchosiifolia Myrtaceae Photo: CC BY, Gabriel Jovêncio RibeiroEugenia buxifolia Eugenia buxifolia Myrtaceae Photo: CC BY, Jacek PietruszewskiEugenia candolleana Eugenia candolleana Rainforest Plum Photo: CC0, author not statedEugenia capensis Eugenia capensis Dune myrtle Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony RebeloEugenia capuli Eugenia capuli Myrtaceae Photo: CC BY, Juan Cruzado CortésEugenia confusa Eugenia confusa Redberry stopper Photo: CC BY, Tom Field Eugenia copacabanensis Myrtaceae all 46 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Eugenia caldensis; Eugenia macrocalyx; Eugenia retusa; Eugenia undulatifolia; Phyllocalyx limbatus and 3 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Myrtaceae
Described by
Cambess.
Native to
Bolivia, Brazil West-Central, Brazil Southeast +4
Wild records
169 in range · 148 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 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
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; 8 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (4 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 4 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -28.00_-48.750, lapse-corrected -187 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
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 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
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 48 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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