Coffea arabica

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Coffee is the best gift plant and perfect house plant / container fruit tree. It grows into a beautiful dark green shrub or small tree. The white, fragrant, star-shaped flowers are clustered and resemble gardenias to which they are related. The whole fruit is edible, it is a small fleshy berry changing in color from green to yellow to red. The seeds are the actual "coffee beans" as they called, they can easily be dried, roasted and ground at home. The most common coffee is Coffea arabica; related species are Coffea robusta (Robusta Coffee) and Coffea liberica (Liberian Coffee).

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Similar plants:

• Coffea canephora, Coffea robusta (Coffee)
• Coffea dewevrei, Coffea liberica var. dewevrei, Coffea excelsa (Excelsa Coffee)
• Coffea myrtifolia, Coffea vaughanii (Wild Coffee)
• Coffea stenophylla (Highland Coffee of Sierra Leone)