Jatropha integerrima Jacq.
Epicar, Integrileaf Jatropha, Medecinier d'Inde (Haiti), Medicinier (Lesser Antilles)
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Summary
Jatropha integerrima, commonly known as peregrina or spicy jatropha, is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, that is native to Cuba and Hispaniola.
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About the genus · Jatropha
Jatropha is a genus of flowering plants in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. The name is derived from the Greek words ἰατρός (iatros), meaning "physician", and τροφή (trophe), meaning "nutrition", hence the common name physic nut. Another common name is nettlespurge. More on Wikipedia ›
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At a glance
Also known as Adenoropium hastatum (Jacq.) Britton & P.Wilson; Adenoropium integerrimum (Jacq.) Pohl; Adenoropium pandurifolium (Andrews) Pohl; Jatropha acuminata Desr.; Jatropha coccinea Link and 12 more.
Cultivation
Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Jatropha, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum; the cold floor is the habitat's alone, and no prose comes from the table.
Its year Rain rule: a summer growing season, May to October in the northern hemisphere (May 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 (1041 mm of 1377 mm) falls in May to October, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 27.2 °C against a yearly mean of 25.5 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: November 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 1377 mm a year, wettest September at 217 mm, driest January at 47 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
1377 mm a year at the habitat, 1041 mm of it May to October. Wettest month September at 217 mm, driest January at 47 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1157 mm to 1583 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 43 mol/m²/day.
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Open sky over the habitat: 25 to 43 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 44).
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 19.0 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 19.0 °C, the absolute minimum 15.8 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 32.4 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 20.2 °C in January (across the envelope cells 17.9 °C to 22.7 °C), warmest day 30.7 °C in July (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 19.0 °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.
Relative humidity at the habitat: 60 to 64% 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
Figures by month
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 25 / 24–27 | 26 / 25–28 | 27 / 25–28 | 29 / 26–30 | 29 / 27–30 | 30 / 28–31 | 31 / 29–32 | 31 / 29–32 | 30 / 29–31 | 29 / 28–30 | 27 / 26–29 | 26 / 25–27 |
| Night °C | 20 / 18–23 | 21 / 18–23 | 21 / 19–23 | 23 / 20–24 | 24 / 22–25 | 25 / 23–26 | 26 / 24–27 | 26 / 24–27 | 25 / 23–27 | 24 / 22–26 | 23 / 21–25 | 21 / 19–24 |
| Rain mm | 47 / 35–57 | 51 / 35–68 | 50 / 43–68 | 66 / 53–93 | 143 / 117–189 | 213 / 92–256 | 144 / 80–184 | 173 / 91–202 | 217 / 131–253 | 151 / 130–217 | 73 / 56–103 | 49 / 32–60 |
| DLI | 26 / 25–29 | 31 / 30–34 | 37 / 36–39 | 43 / 42–44 | 42 / 41–43 | 41 / 39–43 | 43 / 41–44 | 41 / 39–42 | 36 / 34–38 | 31 / 30–32 | 27 / 26–29 | 25 / 23–27 |
| RH % | 61 / 59–64 | 60 / 59–64 | 60 / 58–63 | 60 / 58–62 | 61 / 60–64 | 64 / 62–68 | 62 / 61–67 | 63 / 61–67 | 64 / 63–69 | 63 / 62–69 | 61 / 60–67 | 61 / 60–65 |
Each figure is the median across the 32 grid cells holding the 39 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 1351:1914 (22.425, -84.275). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 15.8 °C, 1st-percentile night 19.0 °C, 99th-percentile day 32.4 °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 32 distinct grid cells holding the 39 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1351:1914 (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 22.50_-84.375, lapse-corrected +6 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 16 m (cell mean).
Natural habitat
Photographs
Photographs: no rights reserved · CC0 (7); (c) Eric Knight, some rights reserved (CC BY).
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 Jatropha integerrima, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.
Related
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.
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