Dried Common robusta coffee beans

does starbucks use cheap robusta beans after all? there are two major varieties of the coffee plant: arabica and robusta. All the best tasting coffee, imbued with rich, subtle flavor, is made from arabica beans. Harsher and more bitter coffees are brewed from robusta beans.

coffea arabica, also known as the arabian coffee, "coffee shrub of arabia", "mountain coffee", or "arabica coffee", is a species of coffea. It is believed to be the first species of coffee to be cultivated, and is the dominant cultivar, representing some 60% of global production

arabica. The coffee plant is an evergreen shrub, classified under the genus coffea, and part of the botanical family rubiaceae. There are several species of coffea, the finest quality being arabica, which today represents 59% of the world's coffeeproduction. arabica originated in the highlands of ethiopia