The Dutch carried the descendants of the seeds of Baba Budan stole to Java in 1650, where coffee growing subsequently flourished. One pound of whole beans will make 40 6-ounce cups of coffee. The first European coffee was sold in drugstores in 1615 as a medicinal remedy. Coffee berries do not ripen uniformly. The same branch may display ripe red berries, unripe green berries, and overripe black berries.
Conscientious growers select only the ripe berries.
The coffee tree produces its first full crop when it is about 5 years old. Thereafter it produces consistently for 15 or 20 years. A mature coffee tree will produce one pound of coffee per growing season. Cappuccino is so named because the drink's peak of foam resembles the cowl of a Capuchin friar's habit. All coffee is grown in an equatorial band between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.