Civet coffee beans

Description:

Spotted these hiking back from exploring two new caves. Locally the coffee in call Alamid in the Tagalog regions and Motit in the Cordillera regions. Wiki - a species of Coffea originally indigenous to the mountains of Yemen in the Arabian Peninsula, hence its name, and also from the southwestern highlands of Ethiopia and southeastern Sudan. The fruit is a drupe (though commonly called a "berry") 10–15 mm in diameter, maturing bright red to purple and typically contains two seeds (the coffee 'bean'). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffea_arab...

Habitat:

An area planted with Coffea arabica.

Notes:

RianBernal spotted a Palm Civet Cat (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) at: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/629.... dandoucette has a good write-up of these beans at: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/644.... Photo by Jerry Rendon