Kaadu Coffee / South Indian Wild Coffee
Psychotria flavida
- Habit
- Shrub
- Found in India
- Karnataka
- Flowering
- March-July
How to identify Kaadu Coffee
Identify Kaadu Coffee by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a shrub habit.
- Confirm leaf surface: Glabrous (smooth, hairless).
- Confirm flower colour: White.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: March-July.
- In India, compare location records such as Karnataka.
- Confirm it sits within the Rubiaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Kaadu Coffee.
Plant Details
Leaf characters
- Leaf surface
- Glabrous (smooth, hairless)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Opposite
Characters marked “recorded” are for Kaadu Coffee itself; the rest are typical of the Rubiaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Whiterecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Berry
Characters marked “recorded” are for Kaadu Coffee itself; the rest are typical of the Rubiaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Kannada
- ಕಾಡುಕಾಫಿ Kaadu coffee
About Kaadu Coffee
South Indian Wild Coffee (Psychotria flavida) is a shrub in the Rubiaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Karnataka. It grows in evergreen forests and sacred groves. Flowering and fruiting run from March to July.
Rubiaceae
Coffee/Madder family
Kaadu Coffee belongs to the Rubiaceae family.
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