Coffee tree, coffee flower, coffee fruit detailed introduction to understand the growth process of coffee beans

Coffee tree is an evergreen tree with small white flowers and green fruits that turn red when ripe. A normal coffee tree can grow to 5 to 10 meters tall, but farmers often prune it to less than 2 meters for easy harvesting. After flowering, they bear dark green oval fruits, mature fruits turn from dark green to bright red, because the color is similar to cherry, so they are nicknamed "cherry", and each "cherry" contains a pair of seeds, which are called coffee beans.

Coffee flower, white, corolla 5 lobes, reverse roll, send out intense aroma. Coffee trees 4 to 5 years old will bloom, flowering about 2 to 3 months, coffee flowers in appearance and smell similar to jasmine, flowering closely on coffee branches were clustered. White petals and light jasmine fragrance, it is noble and elegant, but unfortunately its flowering period is very short about 3~5 days. Therefore, it is a rare opportunity to enjoy the grand occasion of coffee flowers in the coffee garden. After the coffee blossoms, it slowly grows into green coffee fruits.

Immature coffee fruit is green, after 6 to 7 months of maturity, mature fruit skin is red, because of its shape and color similar to cherry, therefore, foreigners call mature coffee fruit cherry (Cherry), in the bright red exocarp, is a sweet sticky yellow material wrapped around the whole coffee bean. Normally, each fruit has two coffee beans, flat face opposite, coffee beans surface has a very thin layer of membrane tissue-silver skin (Silver Skin), each coffee bean and its silver skin are located in a protective role of hard milk bean-shaped shell, called endocarp (Parchment), the role of coffee beans and mucus separation.

Normal coffee trees sometimes produce smaller fruits containing only one coffee bean, which has different names, called Peaberry, or Single Bean. It does not have a flat side. Instead, it is smaller and almost round. Because its quantity is very small, and must be specially selected, collected together, therefore, its price is much higher than the ordinary coffee beans, many people think that the taste of round beans is particularly good, because its round bean shape can coffee original flavor, tightly packed in the beans, the taste is particularly strong. Many coffee lovers regard it as the best of coffee beans.

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