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Kauai wild coffee

Psychotria greenwelliae

Kauai wild coffee is a small native Hawaiian tree in the coffee family, found on Kauai and Oahu and threatened by habitat loss. It is rarely grown outside its native range, and cultivation advice here is general, so grow it in a warm, humid, frost-free spot with partial shade and well-drained soil.

Family
Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist while establishing, then let the top layer dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich soil or a peat-based potting mix.
Temperature
18–28 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Hawaiian Is. (Kaua‘i)
Climate
wet tropical

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Psychotria greenwelliae, the Kauai wild coffee, is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to the islands of Kauai and Oahu in Hawaii. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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 greenwelliae 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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