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

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What Is the Buzz About Coffee?

In nature, coffee is basically apesticide. There are a couple f very interesting exceptions. Certain classes of plants manufacture caffine in their nectar. And it turns out that these are attracted to low levels of cafine. We don't know if they are actually getting a buzz,. but that they will return more reliably to plants offer them cafine.

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