Mexican buckeye
Ungnadia speciosa Endl.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Little
- tall
- 6.2 m
- wide
- 4.9 m
Sapindaceae
Also called Texan buckeye
Formerly Ungnadia heptaphylla, Ungnadia heterophylla
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
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Desert or dry shrublandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. New Mexico to Texas and N. & E. MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Austin Watershed Protection, one source
- Height
- 5.6 m to 6.9 mRead from Wikipedia and Austin Watershed Protection, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 25–25 ft; Austin Watershed Protection 12–20 ft
- Spread
- 3.7 m to 6.1 mRead from Austin Watershed Protection, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Austin Watershed Protection, one source
Not known yet: flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (4)
- Spanish
- Monilla
- Chinese (China)
- 墨西哥七叶树, 墨西哥鹿睛果
- Chinese
- 鹿睛果, 墨西哥七葉樹, 墨西哥牛眼树
- Russian
- Унгнадия прекрасная
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
- Austin Watershed Protection, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Ungnadia speciosa (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.