Red mombin
പന്നിപ്പഴം
Spondias purpurea L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 10 m
- wide
- 10 m
Anacardiaceae
Also called Ciruela, Jocote, Purple mombin, Siniguela
Formerly Spondias crispula, Spondias jocote-amarillo, Spondias mexicana, Spondias negrosensis, and 2 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
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to N. ColombiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 10 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Spread
- 10 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Flowers
- RedRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- biache, cuaripa, Huitzó
- Spanish
- ciruela de huesito, jocote, Ciruelo
- myn
- Chak-abal, Ix-houen, Chi-abal, Kosumil muluch-abal
- Portuguese
- Cajá-redondo, ciriguela, Seriguela
- Dutch
- Rode mombinpruim
- Chinese (China)
- 紫槟榔青
- French
- Prunier d'Espagne, prune chili
- Danish
- rød mombin
- Slovak
- slivkovník purpurový
- German
- Rote Mombinpflaume
- Haitian Creole
- Siwèl
- nah
- Ātōyāxocotl
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, 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 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 2.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Spondias purpurea (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.