After the first heavy rains of a season, Arabica coffee plants flower all at the same time. These flowers have a wonderful perfume and are a magnet for bees and insects from miles around.
After flowering the plant produces clumps af green cherries.Over the course of a year these swell into olive shaped cherries and slowly ripen, first turning yellow and then a crimson red. this is the point at which they are harvested, as if they are left for too long on the tree they wither and fall to the floor.
Inside each cherry are two green beans, which are surrounded by an outer shell called parchment between the tough outer skin and the parchment, is the fruit of the cherry, which is called musilage.
Coffee cherries feed birds, bats, jungle cats, deer and elephants have even been known to be eaten by the odd migrant coffee buyer!
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Pollards Tea & Coffee Ltd, The Roastery, 15 E&F Tinsley Industrial Estate, Shepcote Lane, Sheffield, S9 1TL
Tel: 0114 261 7517 ........Fax: 0114 244 5309........Email: hello@pollards.com
Registered in England 01221479
Pollards Tea & Cofffee is one of Yorkshires finest coffee roasters and suppliers and operates in many town and cities throughout the UK including Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Rotherham, Doncaster, Bradford, Wakefield Huddersfield, Halifax, York Chesterfield, Nottingham and Derby. We supply coffee machinery through Yorkshire, Drebyshire, the Midlands, Humberside and Lancashire.
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