Large-grained coffee Coffea liberica Bull ex Hiern Liberica coffee

English name: Daguo coffee

Name:Coffea liberica

Genus: coffee

Introduce: launched in Liberia and West Africa. Large shrubs or small trees, 6-15 m tall; bark dark brown; branches spreading, hard and straight. Leaves opposite, leathery, elliptic or Obovate-elliptic, 15-30 cm long, apex mucronate, base broadly cuneate, margin entire, rarely microwave, often with small pores in lower vein axils; petiole 8-20 mm long; stipules broadly triangular, 3-4 mm long, tip obtuse, rarely convex. Cymes 2 to several clustered leaf axils or leaf scars of old branches, with very short involucral pedicels; bracts connate at base, usually 2 broadly ovate, apex truncate, other 2 striate or leaflike; calyx eaves parted or lobed; Corolla white, 2.5-3.2 cm long, distally enlarged, lobes 6-11, elliptic moment rounded, 16 mm long. Berries broadly oval, 19-21 mm long. Native to Africa; introduced and planted in Guangdong and Yunnan. The use is the same as small fruit coffee.

Large-grain Coffee (Flora of Hainan)

Coffea liberica Bull ex Hiern in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. Ser. 2, 1: 171, t. 24. 1876; A. Cheval. Cafeiers du Globe 3: 170. 1947; A. E. Haarer, Modern coffee Prod. twenty-two。 1956; Hainan Flora 3: 350. 1974; Atlas of higher plants in China 4: 258, figure 5931. 1975; Tree Map of Yunnan, Volume 2: 1153. 1991.

Small trees or large shrubs, 6-15 m tall; branches spreading, flattened when young. Leaves thinly leathery, elliptic, Obovate-elliptic or lanceolate, 15-30 cm long, 6-12 cm wide, apex broadly acute, acuminate part 4-10 mm long, base broadly cuneate, entire, both surfaces glabrous, lower vein axils with small pores, with short tufts in pores; lateral veins 8-10 on each side; petiole stout, 8-20 mm long; stipules connate basally, broadly triangular, 3-4 mm long, tip obtuse, rarely convex. Cymes short, 2 to several clustered in leaf axils or on leaf scars of old branches, with very short involucral pedicels; bracts connate, dimorphic, usually 2 broadly ovate, apex truncated, 2 linear, sometimes leaflike. I haven't seen the flowers. Berries large, broadly elliptic, 19-21 mm long, 15-17 mm in diam., bright red at maturity, apical crown with 4-7 mm wide, raised disk; seeds oblong, 15 mm long, ca. 10 mm in diam., smooth. The florescence is from January to May.

It is cultivated in Guangdong, Hainan and Yunnan. The low-altitude forests of Liberia, native to the west coast of Africa, are now widely planted in the tropics.