Posts Tagged ‘coffea’

The Cheap Robusta Coffee

Posted on October 17th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

The robusta coffee or lowland coffee (scientific Coffea canephora) is a species of the genus coffee (Coffea). It was discovered at 19th Century in Western Africa.
Robusta coffee grows as a shrub or tree up to eight meters high. In culture, the plants are kept in order to improve usability significantly smaller. The leaves are oblong-elliptic, [...]

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Coffee Bean Varieties Overview

Posted on October 15th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

The coffee bean is the seed of the coffee plant, botanically not a bean. The word “coffee bean” is a folk etymology. The fruits are red, cherry-stone fruit (coffee cherries), usually with two rock cores, which lie with their flattened sides to each other. These casts are the real “coffee beans“.
These casts are the seeds [...]

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