Coffee
of the Rubiaceae family and grows on shrubs native to tropical and southern Africa and tropical parts of Asia. Grown widely in the tropics, cultivated [...] Coffee beans are the source of one of the most popular beverages in the world. They are in fact, not actual beans, but the seeds of Coffea , a genus of flowering [...] These shrubs can bear fruit for about 50 to 60 years (even up to 100 years in some cases). The fruit or ‘cherries’ take an average 9 months to ripen.