Coffea | |
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Flowering branches of Coffea arabica | |
Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
(unranked): | Asterids |
Order: | Gentianales |
Faimily: | Rubiaceae |
Subfaimily: | Ixoroideae |
Tribe: | Coffeeae |
Genus: | Coffea L. |
Teep species | |
Coffea arabica |
Coffea is a genus o flouerin plants whose seeds, cried coffee beans, are uised tae mak coffee. It is a member o the Rubiaceae faimily. Thay are shrubs or smaa trees native tae tropical an soothren Africae an tropical Asie. Coffee ranks as ane o the warld's maist valuable an widely tradit commodity craps an is an important export product o several kintras.