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Psychotria daphnoides
Smooth psychotria, also called turkey bush, is a shrub or small tree up to about 5 metres tall from Australia's east coast rainforests and northern savannas. It is grown mainly as a shade-tolerant understorey plant in warm, humid gardens.
Psychotria daphnoides, known commonly as the smooth psychotria or turkey bush, is a species of shrub or small tree in the coffee family Rubiaceae that is native to New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory in Australia.
The species is widespread with a continuous presence in rainforest and wet sclerophyll woodlands on the eastern seaboard from Newcastle to Cooktown. The species is also abundant in the Top End, with occurrences in or near Darwin, the Tiwi Islands, Kakadu National Park and Arnhem Land.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Psychotria daphnoides 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.
