Coffee (Coffea arabica)

Ethiopian highland shrub whose roasted seeds fuel the world's most traded psychoactive beverage.

Core Principles & Analysis

• Caffeine acts as a natural insecticide, paralyzing and killing feeding insects.
• Self-pollinating allotetraploid that arose from natural hybridization of two wild species.
• Grows best at tropical altitudes between roughly 1,000 and 2,000 meters.

Specifications & Metrics

• FAMILY: Rubiaceae
• ACTIVE COMPOUNDS: Caffeine, chlorogenic acids