Coffee Bean

The Coffee Bean allows the player to use mushrooms during the day by waking them up. It is a joke about caffeine's ability to boost one's energy. To use it, place the coffee bean on a sleeping mushroom.

Strategy
The mushrooms are very cheap (because Sun is scarce at night), 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 to plant a couple of instant-effect mushrooms (Ice-shroom, Doom-shroom, etc.) 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.

Good Morning Achievement
In order to get the achievement Good Morning on the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad version, Coffee Beans are crucial as the only plants you can use are mushrooms. 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 Puff-shrooms you may want to use.

Trivia

 * The Coffee Bean, Lily Pad, and Flower Pot are the only plants with no offensive or defensive abilities.
 * The Coffee Bean and the Squash are the only plants that cannot be eaten, although the Squash can be killed by basketballs.
 * As can be seen by looking at the Coffee Bean's Almanac page, the Coffee Bean Levitates. This is likely because it is planted on top of mushrooms so must be above the ground.