What color are the coffee flowers? How long is the flower cycle? How long does it take to grow into coffee beans?

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Coffee flowers, pure white, strong fragrance like milk, although it is strong but not pungent, coffee flowers have a touch of jasmine. Coffee is greatly affected by climate when it blossoms, among which rainfall and temperature are the most important. If the temperature is lower than 10 ℃, it will not blossom, but more than 13 ℃ will be beneficial to flowering. Coffee can bloom many times, the florescence is very concentrated, only 2-3 days of life, relatively short, small seed coffee flowers are in early bloom at 3-5 o'clock in the morning, 5-7 o'clock in full bloom.

After the coffee flowers withered for a few months, they began to bear fruit. The fruit is a drupe with a diameter of about 1.5 centimeters. it is green at first, then turns yellow gradually, turns red when ripe, and is very similar to cherries, so it is called cherry coffee and can be harvested at this time.

Coffee fruit contains two seeds, namely coffee beans. The two beans are connected face to face with each other on one side of the plane. Each coffee bean has a thin outer film, which is called silver skin, and its outer layer is covered with a yellow outer skin, called endocarp. The whole coffee bean is wrapped in a sticky pulp to form the coffee pulp, which is soft and sweet, with the outer shell.