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Coffee Lover - Before discussing specific types of coffee beans. Let's first speak about the Coffee Plant. Coffee trees are certainly not really trees in any way as Botanically they may be "shrubs" The coffee plant is part of the Rubianceae family native to the mountains of Yemen in Arabia. - Coffee Culture

Coffee Lover - While you can find over seventy-three classified species of the Coffee Plant, only three are used in significant quantities for commercial coffee production. Those three varieties where practically all coffee sold comes from arearobusta and arabica, and liberica.