Thanks Dineshji We have taught this to students year after year, but seeing live (photographs) for the first time. Thanks for showing.
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear friends, > > *Coffea canephora* (synonym, and popular as *Coffea robusta*), native of > central and western subsaharan Africa; cultivated widely in tropics ... > though considered inferior to C. arabica, this coffee is commercially as > important ... it produces larger and quicker yield and is less prone to > infection. Moreover coffee manufacturers use this coffee as a purposeful > blend with other coffees to achieve certain tastes that are popular > world-wide. > > Seen at Kodagu Valley Resort on 30 MAR 11 ... as such found planted all > over Mercara (Coorg). > They are maintained to a height of 5 - 8 ft ... the smaller arabica plants > are grown among these robusta plants. > > Coffee in India is known by same name in all the languages ... > pronunciation differs as per regional accent ... thus: > Assamese: কফি kaphi • Bengali: কফি kaphi • Gujarati: કૉફી kophi • Hindi: > काफ़ी kafi, कॉफी kophi • Kannada: ಕಾಫಿ kaaphi • Kashmiri: कह्व kahwa • > Konkani: कॉफि kawphi • Malayalam: കാപ്പിച്ചെടി kaappicceti • Manipuri: kophi > • Marathi: कवा kava, कॉफि kophi • Mizo: kaw-fi • Nepali: कहुवा kahuwa, काफि > kaphi • Tamil: காபி kapi • Telugu: కాఫీ kaaphii > > > Good reading about coffee at http://www.indiacoffee.org/default.php > > > Regards. > Dinesh > > >
