Coffee History

Coffee (from Arabic قهوة, qahwa, it. stimulating drink) is a drink obtained by grinding the seeds of some species of small tropical trees belonging to the genus Coffea, part of the botanical family of Rubiaceae, a group of angiosperm which includes more than 600 genera and 13,500 species. Although more than 100 species are identified and described within the Coffea genus, commercially the different species of origin are presented as different varieties of coffee. The most common among them are the arabica and the robusta.