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Summary
Vitex cymosa is a species of tree in the family Lamiaceae. It is native to Panama and South America.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Vitex cymosa", CC BY-SA 4.0.
About the genus · Vitex
Vitex is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae containing about 210 species. Common names include chaste tree or chastetree, traditionally referring to V. agnus-castus, but often applied to other species, as well, and pūriri for the New Zealand species V. lucens. Species of Vitex are native throughout the tropics and subtropics, with a few species in warm-temperate Eurasia and one in New Zealand.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Vitex", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Seasons
The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,192 mm of 1,662 mm) falls in May to June and August to November. The temperature curve is flat, 1.7 °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 temperature curve moves under 4 °C between the warmest and coldest month, where the shift rule does not apply, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.
Rain
1,662 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,192 mm of it May to June and August to November. Wettest month October at 238 mm, driest month January at 19 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,163 mm to 2,714 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 1,758 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,662 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: 29 to 36 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 27, the highest 90th-percentile month 39).
Warmth and air
Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 22.5 °C in December (across the grid cells of the range 21.3 °C to 23.9 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 32.5 °C in February and March (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: none read. The nearest figure is 22.5 °C, the coldest month's mean nightly low, December, 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 whose ground is too far above or below the typical spot to correct for, and are not used.
Relative humidity at the habitat: 60 to 68% 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
Habitat months, northern hemisphere
Mean daily high from 29 °C in Oct and Nov to 33 °C in Feb and Mar; mean nightly low from 23 °C in Jan, Feb, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov and Dec to 24 °C in Mar, Apr, May and Jun. The cold quarter, Sep to Nov, is the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low, centred on the 8 months in a row that tie for it. 1,662 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added), the wettest month Oct. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 183 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 | 31 / 29–35 | 33 / 29–36 | 33 / 29–35 | 31 / 28–33 | 30 / 28–31 | 30 / 28–32 | 30 / 28–33 | 30 / 28–33 | 30 / 29–32 | 29 / 28–31 | 29 / 28–30 | 30 / 28–32 |
| Night °C | 23 / 21–24 | 23 / 22–25 | 24 / 22–25 | 24 / 22–25 | 24 / 22–25 | 24 / 22–24 | 23 / 21–24 | 23 / 22–24 | 23 / 22–24 | 23 / 22–24 | 23 / 22–24 | 23 / 21–24 |
| Rain mm | 19 / 9–107 | 29 / 14–141 | 64 / 25–201 | 148 / 103–303 | 225 / 146–335 | 169 / 89–267 | 146 / 55–280 | 184 / 101–307 | 213 / 133–290 | 238 / 167–354 | 163 / 116–277 | 64 / 42–164 |
| DLI | 34 / 32–36 | 36 / 33–38 | 36 / 33–39 | 33 / 29–36 | 31 / 27–34 | 32 / 27–35 | 33 / 29–38 | 33 / 31–38 | 32 / 30–37 | 30 / 28–33 | 29 / 27–31 | 31 / 29–33 |
| RH % | 61 / 53–66 | 60 / 52–65 | 61 / 54–66 | 65 / 60–69 | 68 / 61–71 | 67 / 59–71 | 65 / 56–70 | 66 / 56–70 | 67 / 58–71 | 68 / 61–71 | 68 / 62–71 | 65 / 59–69 |
Records on both sides of the equator: the 23 cells at least 10° south of it have seasons six months apart and are left out, not combined into a year no place has. These figures are across the 183 cells that remain: the 59 at least 10° north and the 124 within 10° of the equator, which stay in either way.
The daily extremes were not used: the correction for elevation, -1043 m, is beyond the 1,000 m either way that a lapse rate is applied over, so the weather cell's ground is other terrain than the typical spot's. So no cold floor is read for this species, and the coldest month's mean nightly low is not taken as one. What that cell gave, so corrected, over 44 years: absolute minimum 18.3 °C, 1st-percentile night 21.5 °C.
How this section is made
Natural habitat
How this section is made
Photographs
Photographs: author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (2); (c) Lucas Mantelo Cruz, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4).
Related
Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.
Samanea saman Rain tree Photo: CC BY, Yoav Daniel Bar-Ness
Astronium graveolens Glassywood Photo: CC BY, P Gonzalez Zamora
Pseudalbizzia niopoides Fabaceae Photo: CC0, author not stated
Chomelia spinosa Rubiaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Jeaustin Brenes
Bactris guineensis Guinea bactris Photo: CC BY-SA, Djibo Zanzot Tabernaemontana cymosa Apocynaceae Other Vitex 23 in the reference
Vitex agnus-castus Chaste tree Photo: CC BY, Alexis López Hernández
Vitex altissima Lamiaceae Photo: CC BY, Zheng-An Wang
Vitex bicolor Lamiaceae Photo: CC BY, Fabian Brambach
Vitex cooperi Lamiaceae Photo: CC BY, Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
Vitex doniana Black Plum Photo: CC BY, Tom Field Vitex fischeri Lamiaceae 
Vitex gaumeri Fiddlewood Photo: CC BY, Ricard Busquets Reverte
Vitex gigantea Lamiaceae Photo: CC BY, Raúl A. Ruiz M.
Vitex glabrata Smooth chastetree Photo: CC BY-SA, Ruth Palsson
Vitex leucoxylon Lamiaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Dinesh Valke
Vitex lignum-vitae Satinwood Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg Tasney
Vitex lucens Lamiaceae Photo: CC0, author not stated all 24 ›Names & registers
Also known as Jatropha tomentosa; Vitex cujabensis; Vitex cymosa f. albiflora; Vitex discolor. (GBIF Backbone)
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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