Bark is light-brown to copper-red with a flaky texture and the leaves are light green and narrow ovate in shape.

[2] The plant is dioecious, having separate reproductive organs on different individuals, producing either male or female flowers.

[3][4] Commercially produced coffee plum jams and pickles are exported across the world by various companies, mainly from Kerala.

In South Asian folkloric medicine, the fruits and leaves of Indian coffee plum are used against diarrhea.

The bark of Flacourtia jangomas has various antifungal and antibacterial constituents which makes it an important ingredient for a few Ayurvedic drugs.