Maricao cimun
Byrsonima crassifolia (L.) Kunth
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 4.6 m
- wide
- —
Malpighiaceae
Formerly Byrsonima cinerea, Byrsonima coriacea, Byrsonima cotinifolia, Byrsonima cubensis, and 27 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to Trop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Top Tropicals, one source
- Height
- 3.0 m to 6.1 mRead from Top Tropicals, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Top Tropicals and Wikipedia, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: Top Tropicals medium; Wikipedia low
- Flowers
- Yellow, orange, redRead from Top Tropicals, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from Top Tropicals, one source
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Top Tropicals, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Byrsonima crassifolia (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.