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Lay two plants next to each other — uses, risks, and whether either has a grow guide.
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Coffee
Coffea arabica
The cherry that runs the morning — a highland shrub whose roasted seed is the world’s most popular bitter.
Flavor
Roasted: chocolate, fruit, smoke, or rubber, depending on the roast. Green is grassy and sour.
Symptoms
fatigue, brain fog, headache
In favor
A true food-drink
Against
Insomnia and jitters
Days to harvest
3–4 years to first cherries in the tropics; a house plant may never crop
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