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The basic type of coffee

Coffee is a daily drink for many people. Living on flat land, it is difficult to see coffee trees growing. Here are some quick summaries of coffee:

Evergreen plants of the genus Coffee of Rubiaceae

The flowers are white and fragrant.

Coffee beans are actually the seeds of coffee.

Sun-dried pulp and peel can be used to make tea, called Cascara Tea, coffee honey fruit tea

The green beans before baking are called "Green Beans".

Because the ripe fruit of most varieties is red, it is commonly known as "coffee cherry (Coffee Cherries)"

Some will produce yellow or orange coffee fruit, and there is a tree with red and yellow varieties.

Depending on the environment and variety, it can be short shrubs, or some grow to 8 meters

Suitable for growing between 30 degrees south latitude and 25 degrees north latitude, especially called "The Bean Belt"

Taiwan has a record of growing coffee in the 19th century, appearing in Hsichih, cold puddles and other places.

Oh, everyone's favorite Arabica.

Coffee can be divided into three main varieties, namely, Arabica (Coffea arabica), Robusta Coffea canephora (Robusta) and Liberia (Coffea liberica).

Arabica is the main force of boutique coffee, suitable for growing at higher elevations, tastes better, is also more delicate, needs care, and is the smallest of the three, so it is also known as small fruit coffee.

Robusta, also known as medium fruit coffee, can grow at a lower altitude, high yield, plain flavor, usually used for commercial purposes, only a very small number of Robusta have the level of boutique. The fruit of Leibiria is super large, which is translated into Chinese as big fruit coffee. It has the ability to resist leaf embroidery disease, which is rare on the market at present.

Varieties and cultivated species

It is speculated that there are thousands to tens of thousands of naturally occurring varieties (Variety) in Arabica, mainly in Ethiopia; at the same time, there are also many artificially screened and cultivated species (Cultivar), which can be thought of as the many branches under Arabica, the former naturally produced and the latter artificially cultivated for a long time.

Native species Heirloom

Generally speaking, farmers may grow more than one variety at the same time, or they may pick out the better varieties for sale. What is more special is Ethiopia. In this country, coffee is mostly wild or semi-wild, growing in fields, backyards, or under forests. What farmers receive is actually a large platter of many different natural varieties, so Yi coffee beans are usually marked as "original species, ancestral species (Heirloom)."

Wild coffee trees like to grow at the bottom of the forest. The tree species that can shade coffee is called "Shade Tree, or Shadow Tree"; such a planting method is called "Shade-grown Coffee". The advantage is that it can reduce the impact on the ecology, and a variety of organisms will also help to suppress diseases and insect pests. In some areas, bananas and other local food crops are used to shade coffee.