Breynia oblongifolia

Taxobox
name = "Breynia oblongifolia"

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image_caption = "Breynia oblongifolia blossoms and foliage"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Malpighiales
familia = Phyllanthaceae
tribus = Phyllantheae
subtribus = Flueggeinae
genus = "Breynia"
species = "B. oblongifolia"
binomial = " Breynia oblongifolia
binomial_authority = (Mull.Arg.) Mull.Arg.cite web |url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?TAXON_NAME=BREYNIA+OBLONGIFOLIA|title="Breynia oblongifolia" |accessdate=2008-10-10|work= Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database|publisher = Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra]

"Breynia oblongifolia", commonly known as 'coffee bush', is an Australasian shrub growing to 3 m in height. The species produces alternate, ovate leaves 20-30 mm long. Small, green flowers are produced in spring and summer, and these are followed by followed by orange or pink berries ~6 mm diameter that turn black when fully ripe.

The species tolerates wide variety of environments, and is found in coastal tropical rainforests in North Queensland and New Guinea through to cool Eucalypt woodlands in southern New South Wales to arid Acacia woodlands in Western Queensland.

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