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Characteristics of Chinese coffee beans and Yunnan small seed coffee

Published: 2024-11-03 Author: World Gafei
Last Updated: 2024/11/03, [scientific name] the small seed is Coffea arabica L., the medium seed is Coffea canephora, and the large seed is Coffea liberica family: Rubiaceae Coffee is also called Arabian species, medium grain species is also called Gaffra species, and large grain species are also called Liberian species, there are two common species: Arabica and Robusta. Coffee is rich in protein and fat.

[scientific name]

The small seed is Coffea arabica L., the medium grain is Coffea canephora, and the large grain is Coffea liberica.

Family and genus: coffee genus of Rubiaceae

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Small seed species are also called Arabian species, medium seed species are also called Ganfla species, and large seed species are also called Liberian species.

There are two main kinds of common: Arabica and Robusta.

Coffee is rich in protein, fat, sucrose, starch, caffeine and other substances. after being made into a beverage, coffee is rich in aroma, delicious taste and rich nutrition, so it has become the world's three largest beverages composed of tea and cocoa, and ranks first in the list. Yunnan coffee is a variant of Arabian original species, which has been cultivated for more than one hundred years after long-term cultivation.

Morphological features: small trees or large shrubs, plant height 5-8 meters. Base usually much branched, old branches gray-white. Nodes inflated, young branches glabrous. Leaves thinly leathery-ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, apex long acuminate, base cuneate or slightly obtuse, entire or shallowly wavy, both surfaces glabrous. Cymes several clustered in leaf axils, Corolla white, fragrant. When ripe, berries are broadly oval, red, 1.2 × 1.6 cm long, and seeds 0.8-1.0 cm long. The florescence is from March to April.

Origin and distribution: native to Ethiopia or Arabian Peninsula, cultivated in Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan.

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