Coffee..."Nature's miracle"

  

         I took this picture at the Como Zoo in MN











ReferencesI took this photo of coffee plants in Costa Rica

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Logacheva, Maria, Tahir Samigullin, Amit Dhingra, and Aleksey Penin. 2008. "Comparative chloroplast genomics and phylogenetics of Fagopyrum." BMC Plant Biology 8.

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