Keyword : Arabica coffee
Descriptions : Coffee plants included in the genus Coffea with the familia Rubiaceae. That famili has many genus such as Gardenia, Ixora, Cinchona, and Rubia. Genus Coffea covers almost 70 kind, but only two species are grown on a large scale throughout the world are Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica) and Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora var. Robusta).
The origin of coffee
Coffee is a plant that has long cultivated plantations. Besides as source of income of the people, coffee is also a mainstay of export and source of foreign exchange earnings. Nevertheless, coffee commodity prices often fluctuate due to the imbalance between supply and demand in the world market coffee.
World coffee consumption reached 70% comes from the type of Arabica coffee and 26% comes from the type of robusta coffee. Arabica coffee originated in the mountainous regions of Africa Ethiopia. However, arabica coffee was unknown by the world community after the plants were developed outside the region of origin, Yemen in the south of the Arabian Peninsula. Through Arabian merchants, the drink spread to other land.
Initially they tried to eat the fruit of the coffee and feel the extra energy. With the development of science and technology, utilized as a coffee fruit drink coffee as it is today. Arab community in calling beverage derived from coffee beans as qahwa meaningful deterrent sleepiness. Therefore, coffee become sultan beverage at night as a deterrent sleepiness. The word qahwa (Qahwain) comes from Turkey, which kahven. The term coffee for each country is different, namely kaffee (Germany), coffee (UK), cafe (France), Koffie (Netherlands), and coffee (Indonesia).
Morphology of coffee
Arabica coffee plants grow lush and form a small clump of trees. The coffee plant has ekselsa large tree growth and strong. Coffee plant has two types of branch growth, namely ortotrop branches grow toward the vertical and horizontal direction plagiatrop branch. Arabica coffee has a flexible branching and leafy thin. The other types of coffee have more stiff branching and leaf thickness and width. The leaves are glossy green coffee growing in pairs with opposite directions with oval shape leaves and veins that firm.
Coffee plants need a period of 3 years from germination to flowering plants produce fruit and coffee. All types of coffee flowering scented white. The flowers appear on the armpit leaves. The coffee fruit is composed of rind (epicarp), fruit pulp (mesocarp) is known as the pulp, skin and horns (endocarp). Formed fruit will ripen for 7 -12 months. Each piece has two coffee beans. Fruit and coffee beans Liberika very large. Coffee beans are called leather-wrapped hard shell horn (parchment skin). Beans have a groove on the flat.
Arabica coffee plant roots deeper than Robusta coffee. Therefore, arabica coffee is more drought tolerant than Robusta coffee. Plants can be rooted more deeply in normal soil, but 90% of the coffee plant roots are in the soil layer above the ground 30 cm.
Taxonomy of coffee
Coffee plants included in the genus Coffea with the familia Rubiaceae. That famili has many genus such as Gardenia, Ixora, Cinchona, and Rubia. Genus Coffea covers almost 70 kind, but only two species are grown on a large scale throughout the world are Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica) and Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora var. Robusta). Meanwhile, about 2% of the total world production of two types of coffee, namely, Liberika coffee (Coffea Liberica) and ekselsa coffee (Coffea excelsa) planted on a limited scale, particularly in West Africa and Asia.
Descriptions : Coffee plants included in the genus Coffea with the familia Rubiaceae. That famili has many genus such as Gardenia, Ixora, Cinchona, and Rubia. Genus Coffea covers almost 70 kind, but only two species are grown on a large scale throughout the world are Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica) and Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora var. Robusta).
The origin of coffee
Coffee is a plant that has long cultivated plantations. Besides as source of income of the people, coffee is also a mainstay of export and source of foreign exchange earnings. Nevertheless, coffee commodity prices often fluctuate due to the imbalance between supply and demand in the world market coffee.
World coffee consumption reached 70% comes from the type of Arabica coffee and 26% comes from the type of robusta coffee. Arabica coffee originated in the mountainous regions of Africa Ethiopia. However, arabica coffee was unknown by the world community after the plants were developed outside the region of origin, Yemen in the south of the Arabian Peninsula. Through Arabian merchants, the drink spread to other land.
Initially they tried to eat the fruit of the coffee and feel the extra energy. With the development of science and technology, utilized as a coffee fruit drink coffee as it is today. Arab community in calling beverage derived from coffee beans as qahwa meaningful deterrent sleepiness. Therefore, coffee become sultan beverage at night as a deterrent sleepiness. The word qahwa (Qahwain) comes from Turkey, which kahven. The term coffee for each country is different, namely kaffee (Germany), coffee (UK), cafe (France), Koffie (Netherlands), and coffee (Indonesia).
Morphology of coffee
Arabica coffee plants grow lush and form a small clump of trees. The coffee plant has ekselsa large tree growth and strong. Coffee plant has two types of branch growth, namely ortotrop branches grow toward the vertical and horizontal direction plagiatrop branch. Arabica coffee has a flexible branching and leafy thin. The other types of coffee have more stiff branching and leaf thickness and width. The leaves are glossy green coffee growing in pairs with opposite directions with oval shape leaves and veins that firm.
Coffee plants need a period of 3 years from germination to flowering plants produce fruit and coffee. All types of coffee flowering scented white. The flowers appear on the armpit leaves. The coffee fruit is composed of rind (epicarp), fruit pulp (mesocarp) is known as the pulp, skin and horns (endocarp). Formed fruit will ripen for 7 -12 months. Each piece has two coffee beans. Fruit and coffee beans Liberika very large. Coffee beans are called leather-wrapped hard shell horn (parchment skin). Beans have a groove on the flat.
Arabica coffee plant roots deeper than Robusta coffee. Therefore, arabica coffee is more drought tolerant than Robusta coffee. Plants can be rooted more deeply in normal soil, but 90% of the coffee plant roots are in the soil layer above the ground 30 cm.
Taxonomy of coffee
Coffee plants included in the genus Coffea with the familia Rubiaceae. That famili has many genus such as Gardenia, Ixora, Cinchona, and Rubia. Genus Coffea covers almost 70 kind, but only two species are grown on a large scale throughout the world are Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica) and Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora var. Robusta). Meanwhile, about 2% of the total world production of two types of coffee, namely, Liberika coffee (Coffea Liberica) and ekselsa coffee (Coffea excelsa) planted on a limited scale, particularly in West Africa and Asia.