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Byrsophyllum tetrandrum is a small tree in the coffee family, native to the Western Ghats of southern India, and is rarely grown outside its native forest. It is a wild, little-studied species with no established cultivation guidance, so care advice here is extrapolated from related tropical Rubiaceae.
Byrsophyllum tetrandrum is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is a small tree native to Agastyamalai in the Western Ghats of Kerala and Tamil Nadu in southern India, where it grows in submontane forest. Its habitat has been damaged from exposure to fires, animal grazing, commercial agriculture and deforestation.
The species was first described as Gardenia tetrandra by Richard Henry Beddome in 1868. In 1874 Beddome placed the species in genus Byrsophyllum as B. tetrandrum.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Byrsophyllum tetrandrum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
