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Coffea benghalensis
Bengal coffee is a wild shrub in the coffee family, native to damp forest edges, stream banks and monsoon undergrowth from Nepal to Bangladesh and northeast India. It thrives in warm, humid, shaded conditions with steady moisture.
Coffea benghalensis is a species of Coffea found in India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal.
It is primarily found in tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests in damp areas such as along streams, but can also be found in dry mixed forests and sal (Shorea robusta) forests such as the Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary in West Bengal, as well as monsoon forests, where it forms a thick undergrowth layer. It is a common species throughout its range in areas such as the forests of West Bengal and Meghalaya, and in some areas such as the Gandaki River basin in Nepal, it is a major component of the shrub flora.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Coffea benghalensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
