Coffee Plants - A Lot Of People Don't Know

Hi I'm Alex and welcome to Daly's Fruit Tree Nursery. We're here with Jessie at Tropical Fruit World and I'm doing one of my all-time favourite things which is seed collecting. So today we're collecting coffee seed and Jessie does tours and there's just this wealth of amazing information and knowledge and interesting facts about all the different amazing fruits at Tropical Fruit World. So what can you tell me about the coffee? So with the coffee lots of people don't know that it comes first in a berry like this if you want to hold this little branch here. So with this berry the seed or the part that we make the drink out of the bean let's say is actually inside this berry but the outside berry part is actually very edible. So if I give this one a little squeeze into my hand you'll see out pops there's the seed. So these are the seeds that I collect and sow at the nursery and we have so many different varieties of coffee. And this is also the bit that we would ferment and roast to make the familiar drink that we all know and love and have most mornings. But yeah this part here the berry part of it you can either eat it just as it is as a berry like that's really rich in antioxidants and vitamin c. It's got kind of a sweetness about it would you say? That's really lovely. You can also make a cordial a syrup out of these and interestingly you can also use the leaves here of the coffee to make another beautiful tasty hot drink that actually doesn't contain any caffeine but still gives your body that similar sort of peppy feeling and a nice hot refreshing beverage as well. So if you just crush that leaf pop it into a cup of boiling water and you can drink that and make a nice soothing beverage. Amazing and what I love as well is the fruit around the coffee seed it doesn't taste contain caffeine. No it doesn't taste like coffee doesn't taste doesn't contain any caffeine so it's safe for everybody to have. Yeah very good and they grow more in tropical regions they don't like frost so they make a really great understory plant you can see this one's many years old it's huge now but you can keep coffee plants pruned and keep them nice and manageable so you can also net them from birds. The main thing is that birds will love to spread the seed so if you're next to rainforest or anything like that just be careful and make sure you net them. But yeah that's the amazing coffee plant so we'll leave some links in the description below of all the different coffee varieties that we sell at Daly's Nursery and if you're interested in all these interesting facts that Jessie talks about then join them for a tour here near the Gold Coast just south of the Gold Coast in Australia and yeah here at Tropical Fruit World. Thanks so much Jessie, thanks for watching.