Maiten tree
Maytenus boaria Molina
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 13 m
- wide
- 6.0 m
Celastraceae
Also called Maiten, Chilean mayten, Mayten
Formerly Boaria molinae, Celastrus boaria, Celastrus uncinatus, Maytenus chilensis, and 4 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.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Bolivia to SE. & S. Brazil and ChileKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 12 m to 14 mRead from Wikipedia and RHS, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 20–20 m; RHS 4–8 m
- Spread
- 4.0 m to 8.0 mRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -15 °C (USDA zone 7b)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (5)
- Spanish
- Maitén
- Chinese (China)
- 智利美登木
- Russian
- Майтенус бычий
- Chinese
- 智利美登木
- Finnish
- chilenkelasti
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
- RHS, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Maytenus boaria (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.