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Characteristics of small seed Coffee in Yunnan

Published: 2026-04-04 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/04/04, [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]

Coffea arabica L., Coffea canephora for medium grain and Coffea liberica for large grain

Family: Rubiaceae Coffee

[Alias]

The small-grained species are also called Arabian species, the medium-grained species are also called Ganfla species, and the large-grained species are also called Liberian species

There are two main types: Arabica and Robusta.

Coffee is rich in protein, fat, sucrose and starch, caffeine and other substances, made of beverage aroma rich, delicious taste, rich nutrition, thus becoming the world's three major drinks and tea, cocoa composition, and ranked first. Yunnan coffee is a variation of Arabic original species, after long-term cultivation evolved, generally known as Yunnan coffee, has been cultivated for more than 100 years.

Morphological characteristics: small trees or large shrubs, plant height 5~8 meters. Base usually much branched, older branches gray. nodes dilated, young branches glabrous. Leaves thin leathery ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, apex long acuminate, base cuneate or slightly obtuse, entire or shallowly undulate, glabrous on both sides. Cymes several clustered in leaf axils, corolla white, aromatic. Berry when mature broad oval, red, 1.2 - 1.6 cm long, seeds 0.8 - 1.0 cm long. The flowers bloom from March to April.

Origin and distribution: native to ethiopia or arabia peninsula, in china fujian, taiwan, guangdong, hainan, guangxi, sichuan, guizhou and yunnan have cultivation.

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