Pouteria multiflora is a plant in the family Sapotaceae of the order Ericales. Its English common name is bullytree. Its Spanish common names include jácana,(5).pdf Pouteria multiflora A.DC. Eyma: Sapotaceae - Sapodilla family. John A. Parrotta and John K. Francis. USDA. Forest Service. Publication Number: SO-ITF-SM-62. August 1993. Retrieved 12 September 2013. ácana, acana, hacana, or jacana. It is native to North and South America.Pouteria multiflora (A. DC.) Eyma; bullytree. USDA. Natural Resources Conservation Service. Plants Database. Retrieved 12 September 2013. The plant is common in the Toro Negro State Forest.Bosques de Puerto Rico: Bosque Estatal de Toro Negro. Hojas de Nuestro Ambiente. July 2008. [Publication/Issue: P-030] Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources. (in Spanish) Retrieved 12 September 2013. It can grow from 40–90 feet high and from 2–3 feet in diameter. It yields very good timber that can be used for mill rollers, frames, furniture, and house building. Acana wood is light colored, fine and straight grained, hard, very heavy, strong, durable, and can be polished to shine. The pores are small and arranged in radial rows. Pith rays narrow and indistinct. A similar definition of the Acana tree is given by Constantino Suarez in his Diccionario de voces Cubanas as; wild indigenous tree with a straight trunk that grows to 10 meters with coriaceous rigid oval leaves which produces a nutritious fruit smaller than the zapote, and whose wood is valued in Cuba for rustic houses and ship building because of the wood's durability and hardness, qualities enhanced by its sonority, weight, and beautiful reddish color.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Habitat GIFTFloresta de Terra Firme, Floresta Estacional Perenifólia
Woodinesswoody
Physiology & chemistry5
Leaf n35.52 mg/g
Nitrogen fixingnon_nitrogen_fixer
Photosynthetic pathwayC3
Specific leaf area (SLA)23.3 mm²/mg
Wood density757 mg/cm³
05DNA & barcoding7 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 Pouteria multiflora has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens7
Marker genes5
GenBank sequences3
eDNA detections5
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.
★matK1★rbcL1★rbcLa★ITS1★ITS2
plant barcodefungal barcode
07Deep time~12.9 Ma lineage
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
DNA clock origin12.9 Ma TimeTree
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
DNA clock origin
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type630 records
Wild obs. + sensor169
Museum / vouchered461
Origin
Native3
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO1 000 km²
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy53% within 1 km
≤100 m 6≤1 km 2≤10 km 1>10 km 6
15 georeferenced · 154 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor169
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 accuracy33% within 1 km
≤1 km 15≤10 km 28>10 km 2
45 georeferenced · 416 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence461
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 institutions21 of 49 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Saint Louis, US
112
Kew, GB
60
Bronx, US
44
Chicago, US
34
QCNElocation not on record
28
Universidad de Antioquia (UdeA)location not on record
24
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
19
Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas - SINCHIlocation not on record
13
Quito, EC
12
arosemena tola, EC
9
Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL)location not on record
8
Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS)location not on record
6
NHMJlocation not on record
5
UEPAlocation not on record
4
South Kensington, GB
4
JBRJlocation not on record
4
Miami, US
3
Aarhus, DK
3
Durban, ZA
3
Loja, EC
3
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record
3
Universität Göttingenlocation not on record
3
CJBGlocation not on record
3
Herbario UTCEClocation not on record
2
Fredericksburg, US
2
Jardín Botánico de Cartagena "Guillermo Piñeres" (JBC)location not on record
2
St. Augustine, TT
2
Mexico City, MX
2
ASUlocation not on record
2
Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH)location not on record
2
Campo Mourão, BR
1
Universidade Federal de Pernambucolocation not on record
1
MAlocation not on record
1
Universidad Industrial de Santanderlocation not on record
1
CUVClocation not on record
1
Göteborg, SE
1
Tampa, US
1
MeiseBGlocation not on record
1
Universidad Católica de Oriente (UCO)location not on record
1
Cuiabá, BR
1
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, BO
1
La Paz, BO
1
Universidad Tecnológica del Chocó (UTCH)location not on record
1
Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas (UDistrital)location not on record
1
Austin, US
1
Wlocation not on record
1
M-VascularPlantslocation not on record
1
HUAlocation not on record
1
UTFPR-CPlocation not on record
1
49 institutions · 440 of 461 vouchered records shown · 20 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA5 detections
Where the DNA of Pouteria multiflora 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 found5
Studies independent surveys1
Countries2
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 5 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 median18.9 °C 13.8–24.0
Seasonal swing summer↔winter1.50 °C
Max temp (day)22.9 °C 18.2–27.7
Min temp (night)15.3 °C 9.90–20.6
Precipitation222 mm/mo 152–293
Air humidity67.8 % 66.8–68.8
Moisture balance89.8 mm/mo 28.3–151
Vapour deficit763 Pa 513–1,014
Wind speed1.80 m/s 1.20–2.40
Cloud cover47.7 % 35.7–59.8
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.
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GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility630 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI5 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics7 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
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