There are four varieties of commercially viable coffee: Arabica, Liberica, Excelsa, and Robusta. Growers predominantly plant the Arabica species. Although less popular, Robusta tastes slightly more bitter and contains more caffeine.
RUDBECKIA
Rudbeckia, genus Rudbeckia
(noun) North American perennial herbs with showy cone-shaped flower heads
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
rudbeckia (plural rudbeckias)
Any member of the genus Rudbeckia of coneflowers.
Source: Wiktionary
Rud*beck"i*a, n. [NL. So named after Olaf Rudebeck, a Swedish botanist.] (Bot.)
Definition: A genus of composite plants, the coneflowers, consisting of perennial herbs with showy pedunculate heads, having a hemispherical involucre, sterile ray flowers, and a conical chaffy receptacle. There are about thirty species, exclusively North American. Rudbeckia hirta, the black-eyed Susan, is a common weed in meadows.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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