Coffee Daily News Distinguishing Biological Characteristics of Coffee Plants
Distinguishing Biological Characteristics of Coffee Plants.
Botany (species, species)
Coffee is a member of the Rubiaceae plant family, including 500 genera and over 6000 species. Tropical trees and shrubs thrive primarily in the jungle’s bottom strata. Other members of the Rubiaceae family include the species Gardenia and plants that extract quinine and other valuable substances, but the genus Coffee (Coffea) is the most economically important.
Botanists have been divided on the same classification system for the genus Coffee since Linnaeus first accurately defined …