Coffee is an important beverage used all over the world. The ripe berries are used for coffee beverage. Fruit resembles a small cherry with dark red purple cover. The fleshy mucilaginous pulp of fruit encloses two oval greenish grey seeds or beans. Each covered by a thin membrane, the silver skin. Both seeds are enclosed in a common husk like membrane or parchment.
The important varieties of coffee grown in different countries are
Coffee Arabica
Coffee Robusta and
Coffee Liberica
Of these, Arabica and Rubusta varieties are cultivated in India.
