I grew one of these about 25 years ago with no real knowledge of how to care for it. The coffee plant grew into a small tree in a foyer and when it became too big I passed it on to my in-laws. It set seed although quite sparcely. It subsequently died soon afterward from their neglect.

Cheers, Barrie.

I've grown them in south and central Florida for the last 35 years, sometimes shaded, often in full sun. They really don't care. But I think the Brazilians are correct that you get more fruit on a full-sun tree. True, the upper leaf canopy always looks a bit burned. But they grow and produce heavily anyway.

Kona coffee -- I don't know if it's just one cultivar, but it is C. arabica, and it is propagated from plageotropic (great dinner party word, that -- means taken from the horizontal-growing branches) cuttings, so the trees are lower and bushier than seedling coffee.