The coffee plant, with its glossy green leaves and compact growth habit, makes a surprisingly good potted indoor plant. In ideal growing conditions, its fragrant white flowers in the spring are followed by half-inch fruits called cherries that gradually darken from green to blackish pods. Each cherry contains two acidic-tasting coffee beans.
Whether you grow coffee plants in your yard or indoors, the best environment is one that mimics the plant’s natural conditions on a tropical, mid-elevation mountainside.
