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Arabian coffee
Coffea arabica | Also known as: Arabica coffee, Coffee | Rating: votes | Print / Pdf
While not an obvious choice of garden plant, coffea arabica is a tender, lush plant that is not short of charm. Its dark green foliage is made up of leathery, glossy lance-shaped leaves from a slender, grey woody stem. In spring, it produces small white fragrant blossoms with five linear petals and a flurry of long thin stamens, growing in small clusters on the stems. In autumn, these flowers are replaced by clusters of small, round berries, which ripen to a rich red shade. Commonly known as the Arabian coffee plant, it thrives in moist but well-drained acidic soil, preferably in full sun. Use loam-based compost when growing under glass, and water regularly.
Rate it:
- 4.5
- 3.5
- White
- Yes, let it smell
- Early spring
- Mid spring
- Late spring
- Green
- Green
- Green
- Green
- seed
- layering
- budding
- Bushy
- Rounded
- Upright
- Acidic
- Neutral
- Z10-11
- unknown
- -1 - 4
- 0
- well-drained but frequently watered
- sandy
- loams
- Full sun
- Partial shade
- Sheltered
- Exotic, house plants & other
- House plants
- Ornamental Foliage
- Fine fragrants
- For Beginners
- Show-offs
- For birds & bees
- Indoor or winter garden
- Containers
- Specimen
- beginner
- up to 20 years