Coffea ebracteolata

Botanical Description

Coffea ebracteolata is a shrub or small tree with slender branches; it can grow up to 5 metres tall[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a coffee substitute, medicine, dye, broom and toothbrush.