There are two varieties of coffee: Arabica and Robusta

The major coffee varieties grown worldwide today are derived from two original species: arabica and robusta. The planting methods, growth environment and other characteristics of the two are different, and even the caffeine content is also quite different.

Arabica

Robusta

Found mostly in tropical Central and South America

Madagascar in west-central and eastern Africa, Indonesia in Asia

Planted on high mountain slopes 900-2000 meters above sea level

Planted on high mountain slopes 200-600 meters above sea level

Requires high manual intensity care

By contrast, it doesn't take much manpower

The taste is richer

taste poorer, bitter

Low caffeine content

The caffeine content is about twice that of Arabica.

more expensive

the lower

Bean shape is smaller, the front is long oval, the middle crack is narrow and tortuous, the arc shape of the back of the bean is relatively flat

Bean-shaped larger, the front gradually rounded, the back was round convex crack straight, a bit like coix seed

Since coffee fruits do not ripen at the same time on the same tree, high-quality coffee must be hand-picked. About 75% of coffee in the world is Arabica, but only 10% is coffee that can be used in high-end coffee shops. If coffee beans from one country or region have not been mixed with other coffee beans, we call them single-source coffee beans.

Arabica coffee tree species include Bourbon, Typica, New modern nybrids caturra, Catimor and Variedad Colobiana.

Growing Environment: Coffee requires a climate without trees, moderate rainfall, and plenty of sunshine. The main regions of the world where coffee is grown are: America, Africa, Arabia and Indonesia. Coffee is grown in about 80 of these countries.

Coffee tree fruit mature will show delicate bright red, generally known as "coffee cherry (Coffee cherry)", fruit after picking treatment, you can go to the "cherry fruit" inside the coffee beans, usually a fruit wrapped in two oval beans.

The two green beans in the fruit are called flat beans (flat bean), and some coffee trees have only one green bean wrapped in the fruit, which is called a single bud bean or round bean (peabery).

Coffee tree in botany, belongs to the Rubiaceae coffee subgenus evergreen tree, and generally known as coffee beans, in fact, coffee tree fruit seeds, only because of the shape like beans, so called coffee beans. Climate is the decisive factor in coffee cultivation, coffee trees only suitable for growth in tropical or subtropical, north and south latitude between 25 degrees.