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Coelospermum reticulatum
Medicine bush is a shrub of the coffee family from New Guinea and northern Australia, found in dry rainforest and wetter eucalypt woodland. It is rarely grown in gardens, so care notes are general guidance for a tropical shrub of this type.
Coelospermum reticulatum, commonly known as medicine bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae native to New Guinea, the Northern Territory, and Queensland. Its natural habitat is dry rainforest and wetter Eucalyptus woodland. It was originally described as Pogonolobus reticulatus in 1858, before being transferred to its current name in 1867. The plant is an important source of dye for Aboriginal people.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Coelospermum reticulatum 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.
