The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
WELWITSCHIA
welwitschia, Welwitschia mirabilis
(noun) curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having a yard-high and yard-wide trunk like a turnip with a deep taproot and two large persistent woody straplike leaves growing from the base; living relic of a flora long disappeared; some may be 700-5000 years old
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
welwitschia (plural welwitschias)
Welwitschia mirabilis, a desert plant of southwest Africa.
Source: Wiktionary
Wel*witsch"i*a, n. Etym: [NL. So named after the discoverer, Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch.] (Bot.)
Definition: An African plant (Welwitschia mirabilis) belonging to the order Gnetaceæ. It consists of a short, woody, topshaped stem, and never more than two leaves, which are the cotyledons enormously developed, and at length split into diverging segments.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
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