Arrayan
Luma apiculata (DC.) Burret
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 13 m
- wide
- 13 m
Myrtaceae
Also called Temu, Chilean Myrtle
Formerly Eugenia apiculata, Eugenia ebracteata, Eugenia gilliesii, Eugenia hookeri, and 11 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SC. & S. Chile to SW. ArgentinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 10 m to 15 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 10 m to 15 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (7)
- Spanish
- Arrayán, arrayán
- Danish
- Chilensk myrtle
- Russian
- Мирсеогенелла остроконечная
- French
- Myrte luma, Myrte à écorce orange
- Slovak
- luma špičkatá
- Welsh
- myrtwydden Chile
- Chinese
- 尖叶龙袍木, 澳洲香桃木, 澳洲龙袍木
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Luma apiculata (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.