Classification of coffee plants what kind of coffee is coffee?

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What is coffee?

Everyone can recognize roasted coffee beans, but you may not recognize the real coffee tree.

White flowers on coffee trees

To conserve energy and aid harvesting, coffee trees are pruned short but can grow up to 30 feet (9 meters) tall. Each tree is covered with green waxy leaves, growing in pairs opposite each other. Coffee cherries grow along branches. Because it grows in a continuous cycle, it is common to see flowers, green fruit and ripe fruit on a tree at the same time.

Cherries take nearly a year to ripen after their first bloom and about five years to fully bear fruit. Although coffee trees can live to be 100 years old, they are usually most productive between the ages of 7 and 20. Depending on the variety, proper care can maintain or even increase their yield. Coffee trees produce an average of 10 pounds of coffee cherries, or 2 pounds of green beans, per year.

All commercially grown coffee comes from an area of the world called the coffee belt. These trees grow best in fertile soil, where temperatures are mild, rain often falls and sunlight is abundant.

plant classification

The origin of coffee can be traced back to a plant called coffee. There are more than 500 genera and 6000 species of tropical trees and shrubs in this genus. Experts estimate that there are 25 to 100 coffee plants around the world.

In the 18th century, Swedish botanist Carolus Linneaus described coffee plants for the first time. Since then botanists have disagreed on the exact classification of coffee because of its variety. They can be small shrubs or tall trees with leaves ranging in size from 1 inch to 16 inches and colors from purple or yellow to predominantly dark green.

There are two important coffee varieties in the commercial coffee industry-Arabica and Robusta.

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