Parajubaea cocoides, Calle 84A, Bogotá, Bogotá, CO

Parajubaea cocoides Burret

Mountain coconut, Quito palm

Climate known 6 photographs Tropical foliage plant

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Summary

Parajubaea cocoides, the mountain coconut, coco Cumbe or Quito palm, is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. It occurs in Ecuador, Colombia and Peru.

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

About the genus · Parajubaea

Parajubaea is a genus of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae.

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

Family

Arecaceae

Described by

Burret

Native to

Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

Wild records

56 in range· 24 open

At a glance

Warmest month

20°C

Sep, mean day; nights 10 °C (CHELSA)

Rain

1068mm/yr

12 wet months · peak Apr 142 mm (CHELSA)

Light

29–35DLI

mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)

In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person

Grouped as a tropical foliage plant by Arecaceae, which is usually but not always one kind of plant (archetype table). Rain rule: a sharp rainy season, November to May at the habitat (not shifted); the temperature curve is flat (0.6 °C of range), so no growing season is inferred. Habitat rain 1068 mm a year, wettest April at 142 mm, driest July at 35 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 29 to 35 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 12 °C (archetype minimum for a tropical foliage plant, above the 7.5 °C habitat night).

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.

Cultivation

Grouped as a tropical foliage plant by Arecaceae, which is usually but not always one kind of plant (archetype table). The table supplies one figure for this group, a conventional minimum for the cold floor, and no prose.

Its year Rain rule: a sharp rainy season, November to May at the habitat (not shifted); the temperature curve is flat (0.6 °C of range), so no growing season is inferred.

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

The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the year's rain (789 mm of 1068 mm) falls in November to May. The temperature curve is flat, 0.6 °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, southern hemisphere, within 10° of the equator; with no thermal season there there is no season to reverse, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.

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 1068 mm a year, wettest April at 142 mm, driest July at 35 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1068 mm a year at the habitat, 789 mm of it November to May. Wettest month April at 142 mm, driest July at 35 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 881 mm to 1806 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: 29 to 35 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 29 to 35 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 25, the highest 90th-percentile month 39).

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 12 °C (archetype minimum for a tropical foliage plant, above the 7.5 °C habitat night).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 7.5 °C, the absolute minimum 5.0 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 24.2 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 9.6 °C in August (across the envelope cells 8.0 °C to 11.7 °C), warmest day 19.5 °C in September (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 12 °C. The habitat figure, the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER), is 7.5 °C; the archetype table's conventional minimum for a tropical foliage plant (grouped by Arecaceae, which is usually but not always one kind of plant) is 12 °C, which is higher, and the floor rule takes the higher.

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, and the archetype table's group minimum where that is higher. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 61 to 68% 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

day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 28 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

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Day °C	18 / 17–20	18 / 17–20	19 / 17–20	18 / 16–20	18 / 16–20	18 / 16–20	18 / 15–20	19 / 16–21	20 / 17–21	19 / 17–21	19 / 17–20	18 / 17–20
Night °C	10 / 9–13	10 / 9–13	11 / 9–13	11 / 10–13	11 / 9–13	10 / 9–12	10 / 8–12	10 / 8–12	10 / 8–12	10 / 9–13	10 / 9–13	10 / 9–13
Rain mm	94 / 62–156	103 / 75–183	141 / 100–243	142 / 117–255	94 / 75–183	60 / 43–99	35 / 24–63	36 / 21–50	55 / 45–108	93 / 73–158	113 / 78–163	102 / 80–181
DLI	31 / 27–33	31 / 27–35	32 / 26–35	30 / 26–33	30 / 26–33	29 / 25–34	31 / 27–35	34 / 29–37	35 / 31–39	34 / 30–37	33 / 29–34	31 / 27–32
RH %	67 / 63–70	67 / 62–70	68 / 63–70	68 / 63–70	66 / 62–69	65 / 60–68	63 / 58–68	61 / 57–65	62 / 57–65	64 / 61–67	65 / 64–69	67 / 64–69

Each figure is the median across the 28 grid cells holding the 53 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 1793:2037 (0.325, -78.125). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 5.0 °C, 1st-percentile night 7.5 °C, 99th-percentile day 24.2 °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 28 distinct grid cells holding the 53 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1793:2037 (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 0.50_-78.125, lapse-corrected -373 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 2303 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.

NativeColombia, Ecuador, Peru

Kew's description“tree” · “seasonally dry tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Map marker-2.897, -79.004 · in the densest population, 27 records (48% of those in range)

Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 56 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 24 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 1 km away. 2 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 3 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 of the 56 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Photographs: (c) Nicolás Baresch Uribe, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (3).

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 Parajubaea cocoides, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Parajubaea cocoides, a New Record for Peru

Fernando Roca, YB Subowo dan Lulu Cholidah (2010)

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