Shiny-leaf Wild-coffee

Sensitize to cold weather.



Small specimen plant, foundation planting, general cover plant in shaded areas.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Some tolerance to salty wind but not direct salt spray.

Wild Coffee does not like constant full sun.

Birds like the fruit.

Dry mesic to xeric hammock, high areas in swamps, coastal shell mounds, pine flatwoods.

• Showy flowers, Showy fruits, Interesting foliage
• Nectar plant for atala (Eumaeus atala), great southern white (Ascia monuste), julia (Dryas iulia), Schaus' swallowtail (Heraclides aristodemus), and other butterflies. 
• Attracts pollinators including a variety of bees and wasps, flies, and beetles.