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Coffee

Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted, ground coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content, but decaffeinated coffee is also commercially available. There are also various coffee substitutes.

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Taxonomy

Scientific: Coffea arabica
Genus: Coffea
Kingdom: Plantae
Hardiness: Zone 9
Habit: shrub
Bloom: Indeterminate