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Fresh Grounds: The Search for the World's Rarest Coffee

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Coffee Collection in Sierra Leone

An important clue where it was best to look within sierra leone was found in a vast collection stored beneath earon's office. This is cu's herberium, a large room with spiral staircases and wooden cabinets in which seven million plant samples have been preserved by botanists going back centuries. The herberium was actuolly designed the basis oa prison. But instead of prisoners, it's full of dried plant specimens, mostly dating from ron theighteen fifties right up to the present day.

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