Coprosma hirtella

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| image = Coprosma hirtella 5037.JPG

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| genus = Coprosma

| species = hirtella

| name = Coffee-berry

| authority = Labill.{{APNI | name = Coprosma hirtella Labill. | id = 24609|accessdate=8 March 2016}}

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Coprosma hirtella, or coffee-berry,{{cite web |title=Govetts Leap Lookout: Review of environmental factors for visitor precinct upgrade |url=https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/-/media/OEH/Corporate-Site/Documents/Parks-reserves-and-protected-areas/Parks-management-other/govetts-leap-lookout-review-of-environmental-factors-visitor-precinct-upgrade-220457.pdf |website=NSW NATIONAL PARKS & WILDLIFE SERVICE |publisher=NSW Government |access-date=13 February 2025 |page=31 |quote=The mid-storey was highly diverse with native shrubs and includes ... Coprosma hirtella (coffee-berry).}} is a shrub in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It grows to about 2 metres high and has leaves that are between 15 and 50 mm long and 10 to 25 mm wide.{{cite web|title=Coprosma hirtella Labill.|work=Flora of Victoria Knowledge Base|publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne|url=http://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/dbpages/dev/vicflora/index.php/viclist/name/753|accessdate=29 June 2014|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140701235927/http://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/dbpages/dev/vicflora/index.php/viclist/name/753|archive-date=1 July 2014|url-status=dead}} Plants have male and female flower clusters that appear between August and April.

These are followed by orange to reddish fruits that are 7 to 8 mm in diameter.{{cite web|title=Coprosma hirtella Labill.|work=VicFlora - Flora of Victoria|publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria|url=http://data.rbg.vic.gov.au/vicflora/flora/search?q=Coprosma+hirtella|accessdate=8 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308112326/http://data.rbg.vic.gov.au/vicflora/flora/search?q=Coprosma+hirtella|archive-date=8 March 2016|url-status=dead}}

The species was formally described by French botanist Jacques Labillardière in 1805, based on plant specimens collected in Tasmania. It is a common plant of moist montane forests in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.

The 1889 book The Useful Native Plants of Australia records "Fruit sweet, eatable, not agreeable. The fruits of other species may be eaten also."{{cite book | author=J. H. Maiden | year=1889 | title=The useful native plants of Australia : Including Tasmania | publisher= Turner and Henderson, Sydney | url=https://primo-slnsw.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=SLNSW_ALMA21105097830002626&context=L&vid=SLNSW&search_scope=EEA&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US}}