Genip
Melicoccus bijugatus Jacq.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 22 m
- wide
- 18 m
Sapindaceae
Also called Guinep, Spanish lime
Formerly Melicoccus carpoodea, Stadtmannia bijugata
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
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Colombia to N. South AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 22 mRead from Plants for a Future and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Plants for a Future 18–18 m; Wikipedia 25–25 m
- Spread
- 18 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: light, water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (7)
- Spanish
- Mamon, Mamoncillo, Limoncillo
- Chinese (China)
- 蜜莓
- Chinese
- 蜜莓, 西班牙青檸
- French
- Quenettier
- Russian
- Меликоккус двупарный
- root
- knepa, Canapé
- Slovak
- melikok dvojjarmový
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
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Melicoccus bijugatus (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.