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Summary
Garcinia madruno, the charichuela, is a fruit-producing tree species from the lowland and montane rainforests of Central and South America. It ranges from Honduras to Trinidad, Paraguay, and northeastern Brazil. The leaves are dark green and leathery. The fruit looks like a shriveled droopy lemon and has a similar rind, so is sometimes called a lemon drop mangosteen. More on Wikipedia ›
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Garcinia madruno", CC BY-SA 4.0.
About the genus · Garcinia
Garcinia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Clusiaceae native to the Sundaland bioregion of Asia, America, Australia, tropical and southern Africa, and Polynesia. The number of species is disputed; Plants of the World Online (POWO) recognise up to 400. Commonly, the plants in this genus are called saptrees, mangosteens, or garcinias, and is one of several plants known as by the name "monkey fruit". More on Wikipedia ›
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Garcinia", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Seasons
The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the median year's rain (2,188 mm of 2,834 mm) falls in April to October. The temperature curve is flat, 1.9 °C between the warmest and coldest month, so the growing-season rule does not infer a growing season from it. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere. The habitat lies within 10° of the equator, where the shift rule does not apply, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.
Rain
2,834 mm in the median year at the habitat, 2,188 mm of it April to October. Wettest month June at 378 mm, driest month January at 56 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 2,036 mm to 4,441 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 2,798 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 2,834 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 34 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 23, the highest 90th-percentile month 37).
Warmth and air
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 18.3 °C, the absolute minimum 15.7 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 38.3 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 21.4 °C in July (across the grid cells of the range 17.4 °C to 22.7 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 30.0 °C in February (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 18.3 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).
Relative humidity at the habitat: 58 to 69% 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 -28 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, northern hemisphere
Mean daily high from 28 °C in May, Jun and Jul to 30 °C in Jan, Feb and Mar; mean nightly low from 21 °C in Jul to 23 °C in Feb, Mar and Apr. The cold quarter, Jun to Aug, is the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low. 2,834 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added), the wettest month Jun. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 278 habitat cells. Over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER) the absolute minimum was 15.7 °C and the 99th-percentile day 38.3 °C; neither is dated to a month. 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 | 30 / 25–32 | 30 / 25–33 | 30 / 25–32 | 29 / 25–30 | 28 / 25–29 | 28 / 24–29 | 28 / 24–29 | 29 / 25–30 | 29 / 25–30 | 29 / 25–30 | 29 / 24–30 | 29 / 25–30 |
| Night °C | 22 / 18–24 | 23 / 18–24 | 23 / 18–24 | 23 / 19–24 | 22 / 18–23 | 22 / 18–23 | 21 / 17–23 | 22 / 17–23 | 22 / 17–23 | 22 / 18–23 | 22 / 18–23 | 22 / 18–23 |
| Rain mm | 56 / 17–294 | 99 / 47–289 | 162 / 73–314 | 316 / 202–432 | 361 / 240–549 | 378 / 120–539 | 333 / 88–512 | 274 / 80–458 | 254 / 109–447 | 272 / 185–472 | 213 / 136–388 | 116 / 52–299 |
| DLI | 34 / 28–37 | 34 / 29–37 | 34 / 29–36 | 30 / 26–33 | 27 / 24–31 | 25 / 23–32 | 27 / 25–34 | 31 / 27–37 | 33 / 29–37 | 32 / 27–35 | 30 / 25–33 | 32 / 27–34 |
| RH % | 58 / 53–70 | 59 / 53–70 | 62 / 55–70 | 67 / 60–72 | 69 / 64–73 | 69 / 62–73 | 68 / 61–73 | 67 / 59–72 | 67 / 61–72 | 68 / 61–72 | 67 / 62–73 | 63 / 59–71 |
How this section is made
Natural habitat
How this section is made
Photographs
Photographs: (c) Thalia M. Mite, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Mateo Puerta, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3).
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Also known as Calophyllum acuminatum; Calophyllum madruno; Chloromyron verticillatum; Garcinia acuminata; Rheedia acuminata and 13 more. (GBIF Backbone)
Kew accepts as species of their own Garcinia floribunda: older names in GBIF's record of this species that Kew's World Checklist accepts as other species. (WCVP, RBG Kew, file of 2026-06-04)
The record
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
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