Coffee Bean

Coffee Bean is a plant which allows the player to use mushrooms during the Day, Pool and Roof levels by waking them up. To use it, place the Coffee Bean on a sleeping mushroom. The actual coffee bean, Coffea sp., is a perrenial plant cultivated to make various coffee drinks, containing caffeine, to make the drinker active, just like mushrooms wake up during the day by the Coffee Bean.

Suburban Almanac Entry
Coffee Bean

Use Coffee Beans to wake up sleeping mushrooms.

Usage: single use, instant.

Special: can be planted over another plant, wakes up mushrooms

"Hey, guys, hey!" says Coffee Bean. "Hey! What's up? Who's that? Hey! Didja see that thing? What thing? Whoa! Lions!" Yep, Coffee Bean sure does get excited.

Cost: 75

Recharge: fast

Strategy
The mushrooms are very cheap, but 75 Sun is a lot to pay to wake them up. These are only useful with special mushrooms, like the Magnet-shroom, the Gloom-shroom, the Hypno-shroom, the Ice-shroom or the Doom-shroom. Another useful tactic is to plant a couple of instant-effect mushrooms if you know you'll need them later, and pop a Coffee Bean on them when you need the effect. This successfully eliminates the packet recharge; because, if you plan it right, you can use a pre-planted mushroom and a current mushroom back-to-back.

Versus Mode
Coffee Beans are extra helpful during the Versus Mode of the Xbox and DS versions of the game, as it only costs 25 sun to use them. Thus, you can get cheap shooters like Scaredy-shrooms for only 50 sun, much less than other shooters worth 100 sun.

Good Morning Achievement
In order to get the achievement Good Morning on the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad/Pc/Mac/Ds version, you need to beat the level using only mushrooms. Coffee Beans are essential as it is the only way to make mushrooms wake up. The falling Sun from the sky helps to ready the Coffee Beans, and once you have a sufficient amount of Sun-Shrooms they will help generate the sun to wake up the Scaredy-shrooms and Fume-shrooms you will use.



Trivia

 * The Coffee Bean, Plantern, Lily Pad, Flower Pot, Marigold and Gold Magnet are the only plants with no offensive or defensive abilities.
 * The Coffee Bean, Tangle Kelp, Spikeweed, Spikerock and the Squash are the only plants that cannot be eaten, but they can be destroyed.
 * As can be seen by looking at the Coffee Bean's Almanac entry, the Coffee Bean levitates. This is likely because it is planted on top of a mushroom so it must be above the ground.
 * The Coffee Bean also levitates in the Zen Garden.
 * On the Game of the Year Edition box cover, the Coffee Bean has wings.
 * When the Coffee Bean is used, it will turn into coffee powder.
 * The Coffee Bean, the Flower Pot, and the Grave Buster are the only plants that are not recommended on the Fog Levels.
 * The Coffee Bean and the Grave Buster are the only plants that cannot be dug up by the Shovel.
 * When you plant a Coffee Bean on a Mushroom, the mushroom will bounce a little and then wakes up.
 * If a mushroom is eaten while in the process of being woken up by a Coffee Bean, the Coffee Bean will CoffeeBeanZenGarden.pngn floating and uneaten. It will just turn into powder, just like waking up nothing.