Introduction

• Coffea spp, rubiacea
• Derived from arabic word “quahweh” meaning wine.
• Later transformed to word coffee.
• Turkish – kahweh, French- café, Italian- kaffee, dutch- Koffie
• The genus Coffea is native to tropical Africa (specifically having its origin in Ethiopia and Sudan) and Madagascar, the Comoros, Mauritius.
• In Nepal around 1960 Mr. Hira giri brought seeds of coffee from Burma in Aapchaur, Gulmi.

Botany

• The leaves range in colour from yellowish to dark green; the newly developed leaves of some varieties are bronzed, others purple-tinged
• dense clusters of white fragrant flowers,
• some species have flowers which are cream, even tinged with pink or purplish red and without fragrance.
• have opposite leaves and branches