genus Coffea

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genus Coffea - coffee trees

asterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs

family Rubiaceae, madder family, Rubiaceae - widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry

coffee tree, coffee - any of several small trees and shrubs native to the tropical Old World yielding coffee beans

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An annotated taxonomic conspectus of the genus Coffea (Rubiaccac).

Risk Analysis of Gene Flow from Cultivated, Addictive, Social-Drug Plants to Wild Relatives

Legnato et al., "Diversity in coffee assessed with SSR markers: Structure of the genus Coffea and perspectives for breeding," Genome, vol.

Revealing the Diversity of Introduced Coffea canephora Germplasm in Ecuador: Towards a National Strategy to Improve Robusta

Ethiopians grounded and roasted the beans of a tropical evergreen tree of genus coffea, and poured boiling water on them.