Our Plants (List)

Coffee berry inhabits a wide range of habitats throughout California. ‘Eve Case’ is a cultivar introduced by the Saratoga Horticultural Foundation in 1975. It is a mounding shrub with leathery, olive-green leaves. Small yellow flowers appear in mid-spring. Fruit matures from green to red to finally deep purple, reminiscent of…

Coffeeberry is found in many plant communities throughout the California floristic province. ‘Leatherleaf’ was selected from Montara Mountain in San Mateo County. It is named for its dark, rounded leaves, which are quite distinctive for the species. ‘Leatherleaf’ grows in a dense, rounded form to about 6 feet, though it…

Coffeberry is one of California’s most widespread shrubs. It occurs in many forms in nearly every county in various plant communities. In size it ranges from three feet to twenty feet or more. It is well loved in landscapes for its hardiness, large dark green leaves over silver bark and…

‘Mound San Bruno’ coffeeberry is a low growing selection of this adaptable shrub. It grows in a rounded, mounding form to about six feet with narrow lance-shaped leaves and reddish gray branches. The small yellow flowers develop into large berries of red to purple. ‘Mound San Bruno’ coffeeberry will grow…

These plants are grown from seed collected in Santa Clara County

Coffeeberry grows throughout California’s Mediterranean climate zone, extending into Oregon, the Southwest and northern Baja, Mexico. Botanists have identified six subspecies. The tomentella and californica subspecies are the most widespread, and are the only two to occur in Santa Clara County. The tomentella subspecies seems somewhat more common in hotter…

This large member of the Buckthorn Family ranges from British Columbia to the mountains of central California. It grows in a range of conditions but seems to favor areas of high rainfall. Cascara sagrada grows as an upright shrub, sometimes to twenty feet or more, but more commonly to ten…