Coffee Plant

Planting and care

Pour the water in the reservoir and put the carafe back on the heating plate. Measure Your Grounds: Add the desired amount of grounds to the filter: about 1 tablespoon per 5 to 6 fluid ounces of cold water for regular coffee, and 2 tablespoons per 5 to 6 fluid ounces for strong coffee.

Caring for Coffee

In coffee plantations, plants are kept trimmed to 6’ tall for ease of harvest and best production. Indoor container plants typically grow to about 4-6’ tall.

Typical uses of Coffee

Special features: Plants feature (a) glabrous, glossy, elliptical, dark green leaves with prominent veins and wavy margins, (b) fragrant (resembles the aroma of jasmine), star-shaped, white flowers that bloom in axillary clusters of 2-9, (c) green two-seeded fruits (berries) that gradually mature to yellow, light red and finally deep red and (d) fissured bark on older branches.

Culinary use: Berries are edible with a pulpy grape-like texture, but it is the seeds (coffee beans) that are coveted. Berries are picked by hand when ripe and depulped, with the extracted seeds/beans then dried in the sun before roasting. Coffee beans contain caffeine.

Ornamental use: In frost free climates, it is grown commercially for production of coffee beans or ornamentally as a specimen or in shrub borders.

Medicinal use:

• Arabica coffee is used for Asthma, depression, fatigue, hay fever, gum diseases, caries, dental Abscesses.
• It is also used as Aphrodisiac.

References

• http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=b632
• https://herbpathy.com/Uses-and-Benefits-of-Arabica-Coffee-Cid3750