Article Nº 0656 Plant Vol. I · p. 358
Coffee shrub (Coffea arabica)
Original title: Cafeeiro (Coffea arabica)
The coffee shrub, once common in southern Madeira's lowlands and producing excellent coffee, but extinct on the island by the time of writing.
A shrub of the family Rubiaceae, now extinct in Madeira, but still common some 25 years ago in the low-lying region of the south of the island. Madeiran coffee was of excellent quality and rivalled that of Mocha.
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