Pilea cadierei, the aluminium plant or watermelon pilea, is a species of flowering plant in the nettle family Urticaceae, native to China (provinces of Guizhou and Yunnan) and Vietnam. The specific epithet cadierei refers to the 20th-century botanist R.P. Cadière. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Compounds documented for Pilea cadierei across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile1 class
Flavan-3-ols $ Proanthocyanins1
Documented compounds1 total
Compound
Class
Amount
Source
Prodelphiniline
present
LOTUS
05DNA & barcoding10 specimens
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Pilea cadierei has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens10
Marker genes6
GenBank sequences10
eDNA detections6
Countries3
The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
★matK2★rbcL5★rbcLa★ITS3★ITS2trnH-psbA
plant barcodefungal barcodemarker
06Genome at a glanceCCDB · GoaT · TreeOfSex
The complete instruction manualPilea cadierei carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy92% within 1 km
≤100 m 837≤1 km 121≤10 km 43>10 km 44
1 045 georeferenced · 374 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor1 419
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Coordinate accuracy62% within 1 km
≤100 m 8≤1 km 5≤10 km 5>10 km 3
21 georeferenced · 86 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence107
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Coordinate accuracy
no georeferenced coordinates · 1 records without
Open the mapnot free-living1
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions27 of 55 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Shanghai, CN
13
Durango, MX
9
Saint Louis, US
7
National Biodiversity Institute, Costa Ricalocation not on record
7
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
5
San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record
3
Universidad de Nariño (UdeNar)location not on record
3
Universidad de Caldas (UCaldas)location not on record
2
Salvador, BR
2
Monastir, TN
2
Seoul, KR
2
Museo Nacional de Costa Rica (MNCR)location not on record
2
Chicago, US
2
Blumenau, BR
2
BMlocation not on record
2
Tampa, US
2
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record
1
Gump Stationlocation not on record
1
Stockholm, SE
1
Paris, FR
1
Altos de Pipe, VE
1
Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas, Universidad Veracruzana, Región Xalapalocation not on record
1
Taipei, TW
1
North Carolina Zoological Parklocation not on record
1
Nanchong, CN
1
UFERSAlocation not on record
1
South Kensington, GB
1
Brisbane, AU
1
USP-IBlocation not on record
1
QVMAGlocation not on record
1
Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeirolocation not on record
1
Managua, NI
1
PUC-RSlocation not on record
1
Universidad Tecnológica del Chocó (UTCH)location not on record
1
Minia, EG
1
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paranálocation not on record
1
Antiguo Cuscatlán, SV
1
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
1
Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL)location not on record
1
Foz do Iguaçu, BR
1
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record
1
Christchurch, NZ
1
Bronx, US
1
Denver, US
1
Armidale, AU
1
Universidad de Antioquia (UdeA)location not on record
1
Berlin, DE
1
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, BO
1
León, NI
1
Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record
1
JBRJlocation not on record
1
UFABClocation not on record
1
UNIVILLElocation not on record
1
UTFPR-CPlocation not on record
1
Universidade da Região de Joinville - Univillelocation not on record
1
55 institutions · 104 of 107 vouchered records shown · 3 without an institution code
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
09Environmental DNA6 detections
Where the DNA of Pilea cadierei was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Detections DNA found6
Studies independent surveys1
Countries2
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 6 detections have coordinates
Open the map2 countries0
How strong is each trace?
DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.
Modelled climatemodelled
−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C
Temperature median13.0 °C 8.80–17.2
Seasonal swing summer↔winter19.0 °C
Max temp (day)17.1 °C 13.7–20.5
Min temp (night)9.70 °C 5.40–13.9
Precipitation54.3 mm/mo 13.3–95.3
Air humidity58.7 % 57.9–59.6
Moisture balance-42.1 mm/mo -123–38.9
Vapour deficit644 Pa 488–800
Wind speed4.30 m/s 3.90–4.60
Cloud cover40.0 % 33.0–47.0
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 2 detection points · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation8 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 528 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI6 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics10 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
Tree of SexTree of Sex Consortiumgenome & karyotype↗