coffee shrub

The coffee shrub is a large evergreen tropical bush, originally found in North Africa but now grown in many areas of the world.

It is also known as the "coffee shrub of Arabia", "mountain coffee" or "arabica coffee".

Coffee shrubs are planted more densely, and the farm looks very organized and deliberate with a focus on generating products that are solely market-based.

Wild Coffee Shrub (Psychotria undata)

While some low-caffeine but poor-quality species of coffee shrub have been discovered, scientists have been unable to blend them genetically with arabica plants, the preferred variety worldwide.

Commercial Polyculture is similar to traditional polyculture, but some foliage is removed to make room for more coffee shrubs or for trees more favorable to the farmers' needs.

With this method, coffee shrubs are planted in the existing forest with only the lowest strata of the forest removed and replaced with the coffee crop, so there is little alteration of the native plants.

We took excursions to the smoking crater of Volcán Masaya; we glided on cables between the crowns of giant ceiba trees over coffee shrubs on the skirt of Volcán Mombacho.

He was devoted to horticulture, and had a small garden within the precincts of Trinity College which was famous for exotic plants, including the pineapple, banana, coffee shrub, logwood tree, and torch thistle, which, with the aid of a hothouse, he was able to raise.

Legends trace the discovery of coffee either to a Sufi dervish named Omar, or to a goatherder named Kaldi, who observed goats become elated and sleepless at night after grazing on coffee shrubs and, upon trying the berries the goats had been eating, experienced the same vitality.