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Orthosiphon thymiflorus
Also called Common Piccadill, Piccadill, Thyme Java Tea, Thyme Piccadill
Orthosiphon thymiflorus is a straggling perennial herb in the mint family that becomes somewhat shrubby with age, native to tropical Africa and tropical Asia. It is a wild plant of dry woodland and bushland, grown in gardens mainly for its small pink flowers and tea-like foliage.
Orthosiphon thymiflorus, commonly called the thyme piccadill or thyme Java tea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is found across tropical Africa, in Madagascar, and in tropical Asia from Sri Lanka and peninsular India to China and Indonesia.
Orthosiphon thymiflorus is recorded from Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, the Central African Republic, southeast China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Java, Kenya, Laos, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and the South African provinces of the Eastern Cape, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, and the North West. It grows in wooded grassland and bushland and more open, drier forests.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Orthosiphon thymiflorus 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.
