Coffea arabica
Coffee, Arabica Coffee
Economically important flowering shrub to ‘. Foliage to 6″ long, glossy dark green, slightly corrugated; Flowers white, slightly fragrant, attractive to bees; fruit an iconic dark red drupe with 2 seeds (“beans”).
Seeds, when dried, fermented and roasted, provide the beverage the world wakes up to (second most traded commodity after oil).