This is a plant of Coffea Arabica, the species that produces Kona coffee. It’s a deciduous shrub and it can grow into fairly large trees in good conditions. The flowers look like little white star-shaped pom-poms. They’re quite fragrant.
Flowers and flower buds.
The buds are very colorful, ranging from bright pink to dark red, and eventually, open into the star-shaped flowers I talked about earlier.
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