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Largeflower wild coffee

Psychotria grandiflora

Also called Large-flowered Balsamo, Kopiko

Largeflower wild coffee is a rare tree in the coffee family, found only on Kaua'i in Hawaii, where fewer than 30 wild plants survive. It is grown mainly by conservation and botanical gardens, not as a common garden plant, and needs humid, shaded forest-like conditions.

Family
Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist and never let it dry out completely; it thrives in consistently wet tropical conditions.
Soil
Rich, well-drained but moisture-retentive humus or forest-type mix.
Temperature
18–28 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Hawaiian Is. (Kaua‘i)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Psychotria grandiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is sometimes referred to by the common name largeflower wild coffee, large-flowered balsamo or kopiko, endemic to the island of Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands. It grows in rainforest habitat. There are ten small populations remaining, with a total of no more than 30 individuals. This plant was federally listed as an endangered species of the United States in 2010.

Other Psychotria plants

Psychotria abdita · Psychotria acutiflora · Psychotria adamsonii · Psychotria alba · Psychotria alsophila · Pink wild coffee · Psychotria atricaulis · Psychotria beddomei · Psychotria bimbiensis · Psychotria bryonicola · Psychotria camerunensis · Black bird-berry

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Psychotria grandiflora 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.

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