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Araucaria angustifolia (Bertol.) Kuntze

Brazilian-pine, Candelabra Tree, Parana Pine, Parana-pine

Climate known 49 photographs
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Summary

Araucaria angustifolia, the Paraná pine, Brazilian pine or candelabra tree, is a critically endangered species of conifer in the family Araucariaceae. Although the common names in various languages refer to the species as a pine, it does not belong in the genus Pinus.

Text from Wikipedia, “Araucaria angustifolia”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Araucaria

Araucaria is a genus of evergreen coniferous trees in the family Araucariaceae. While today they are largely confined to the Southern Hemisphere, during the Jurassic and Cretaceous they were globally distributed. There are 20 extant species in New Caledonia, eastern Australia, New Guinea, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay.

Text from Wikipedia, “Araucaria”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Araucariaceae
Described by
(Bertol.) Kuntze
Native to
Brazil Southeast, Brazil South, Argentina Northeast +1
Wild records
1343 in range· 715 open

At a glance

Warmest month
26°C
Jan, mean day; nights 18 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
1835mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Jan 216 mm (CHELSA)
Light
18–38DLI
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: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (March to October in the northern hemisphere). Habitat rain 1835 mm a year, wettest January at 216 mm, driest August at 95 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 18 to 38 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 0.8 °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 Araucaria angustifolia (Bert.) Ktze.; Araucaria angustifolia f. catharinensis Mattos; Araucaria angustifolia var. alba Reitz; Araucaria angustifolia var. caiova Reitz; Araucaria angustifolia var. caiuva Mattos and 37 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (March to October in the northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads no season: 70% of the year's rain (1372 mm of 1835 mm) takes 8 months, September to April. Mean temperature moves 8.0 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: March to October.

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 1835 mm a year, wettest January at 216 mm, driest August at 95 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1835 mm a year at the habitat, 1372 mm of it September to April. Wettest month January at 216 mm, driest August at 95 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1521 mm to 2350 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, southern 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: 18 to 38 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 18 to 38 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 16, the highest 90th-percentile month 42).

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 0.8 °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 0.8 °C, the absolute minimum -3.6 °C, about 2 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 37.6 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 9.4 °C in July (across the envelope cells 6.7 °C to 12.0 °C), warmest day 25.5 °C in January (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 0.8 °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: 62 to 66% 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

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 18 °C in Jul to 26 °C in Jan; mean night from 9 °C in Jul to 18 °C in Feb. The cold quarter, Jun to Aug, is the three months around the coldest night. 1835 mm of rain a year, most in Jan. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 659 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -3.6 °C and the 99th-percentile day 37.6 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-10°10°20°30°40°frost37.6° 99th-percentile day (undated)-3.6° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400mm rainDLI 18–38RH 62–66 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 659 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
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C26 / 23–2826 / 23–2825 / 22–2723 / 20–2519 / 17–2218 / 16–2118 / 16–2120 / 17–2321 / 18–2422 / 20–2524 / 21–2725 / 22–28
Night °C18 / 15–2018 / 15–2017 / 14–1915 / 12–1712 / 9–1410 / 7–139 / 7–1210 / 8–1312 / 9–1414 / 11–1615 / 13–1816 / 14–19
Rain mm216 / 163–349194 / 153–275148 / 115–241128 / 90–192128 / 75–191114 / 42–176126 / 43–17995 / 36–142156 / 88–203175 / 131–258167 / 132–228188 / 138–320
DLI36 / 33–4035 / 33–3731 / 29–3425 / 23–2921 / 19–2418 / 16–2320 / 17–2425 / 22–2928 / 24–3132 / 29–3537 / 33–4038 / 33–42
RH %66 / 62–7066 / 63–7066 / 62–7066 / 62–6965 / 62–6764 / 61–6663 / 60–6662 / 58–6563 / 59–6765 / 61–6964 / 60–6965 / 60–70

Each figure is the median across the 659 grid cells holding the 1320 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 2400:2520 (-30.025, -53.975). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -3.6 °C, 1st-percentile night 0.8 °C, 99th-percentile day 37.6 °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 659 distinct grid cells holding the 1320 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2400:2520 (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 -30.00_-53.750, lapse-corrected -51 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 69 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.
NativeBrazil Southeast, Brazil South, Argentina Northeast, Paraguay
Kew's description“tree” · “subtropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker-25.47, -49.575 · in the densest population, 942 records (70% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 1343 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 715 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 283 km away. 57 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 23 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 2° block of the 1343 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Fabrício Mil Homens Riella, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Caroline Galassi, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA); no rights reserved · CC0 (4); (c) Carlos Otávio Gussoni, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Photographs: iNaturalist and Wikimedia Commons 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 Araucaria angustifolia, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55 cal kBP)
Paula Reimer, William E. N. Austin, Édouard Bard, Alex Bayliss (2020) · Radiocarbon
Flavonoids: an overview
Archana Panche, A D Diwan, Sheela Chandra (2016) · Journal of Nutritional Science
Growing knowledge: an overview of Seed Plant diversity in Brazil
Daniela C. Zappi, Fabiana Ranzato Filardi, Paula Leitman, Vinícius Castro Souza (2015) · Rodriguésia
Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests
Jingjing Liang, Thomas W. Crowther, Nicolas Picard, Susan K. Wiser (2016) · Science
Polyamine Function in Plants: Metabolism, Regulation on Development, and Roles in Abiotic Stress Responses
Dandan Chen, Qingsong Shao, Lianghong Yin, Adnan Younis (2019) · Frontiers in Plant Science
Abiotic Stress Responses and Microbe-Mediated Mitigation in Plants: The Omics Strategies
Kamlesh K. Meena, Ajay M. Sorty, Utkarsh M. Bitla, Khushboo Choudhary (2017) · Frontiers in Plant Science
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Jsfdufvs T, Megep Génie Civil, Bastos Leopoldo (codirecteur, Bonneaud Frédéric (examinateur (1996) · Acta Botanica Brasilica
Unidades de vegetación de la Argentina
Mariano Oyarzábal, José Clavijo, Luis J. Oakley, Fernando Biganzoli (2018) · Ecología Austral
Soil health: looking for suitable indicators. What should be considered to assess the effects of use and management on soil health?
Elke Jurandy Bran Nogueira Cardoso, Rafael Leandro de Figueiredo Vasconcellos, Daniel Bini, Marina Yumi Horta Miyauchi (2013) · Scientia Agricola
A meta‐analysis of plant responses to light intensity for 70 traits ranging from molecules to whole plant performance
Hendrik Poorter, Ülo Niinemets, Nikolaos Ntagkas, Alrun Siebenkäs (2019) · New Phytologist
Nitric Oxide Mitigates Salt Stress by Regulating Levels of Osmolytes and Antioxidant Enzymes in Chickpea
Parvaiz Ahmad, Arafat Abdel Hamed Abdel Latef, Abeer Hashem, Elsayed Fathi Abd Allah (2016) · Frontiers in Plant Science
'UENF 506-11': a new maize cultivar for the North and Northwest of Rio de Janeiro State.
T. de M. F. SUASSUNA, N. D. SUASSUNA, J. C. BOGIANI, F. Perina (2016) · Americanae (AECID Library)

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Araucaria 5 in the reference

History & registers

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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 72 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.