Arabian coffee with dry citric acid flavor

Caturra species

A mutant of Bourbon. It was first discovered in Brazil and commercially cultivated in Minas Gerais, Brazil, in 1937. Caturra has a sour taste of lemon or citrus, and is not as sweet as Typica and Bourbon, because the sweetness of Caturra depends on the number and dosage of fertilizer applied by the grower. It has high productivity, but it must be continuously fertilized and pruned to maintain productivity, so the tree is short and branched. Although the production capacity has increased, production is still limited due to the harvest period of 2 years and the high cost of care.

[Mundo Novo] Mundo Novo

Typica mixed with Bourbon. The trees are more than three meters tall, making it difficult to harvest. It lacks sweetness on the palate and has bitter aftertaste. Advantages are insect disease tolerance, high productivity, but high yield varieties.

Catuai

Caturra and Mundo novo cross species, Caturra tree short and Mundo novo tree tall, after mixing improved height is easier to harvest. Taste soso, sweetness performance similar to Cattura, fertilization technology has a great correlation. High planting density, proper fertilization can have high productivity, tree resistance, resistance to wind and rain damage, short harvest period as long as 1 year, but the disadvantage is short life, only 10 years.

[Typica] Typica species

closest to the original species. The bean is slightly longer, like an elongated egg, and is called Arabigo or criollo in Central America. It has a clean lemon sour taste, sweet aftertaste, low resistance to leaf rust, making it difficult to care, low seed set of trees, and a long harvest period (harvest once every 2 years), resulting in low yield.

Bourbon

The subspecies mutated from Typica, together with Typica, are currently the closest varieties to the original species.

Found at Reunion(formerly Bourbon) on Madagascar. Some coffee experts think Bourbon is just a natural variant of Typica, nothing special! But in fact, Bourbon has its own characteristics, and Typica also has a high-quality taste, like red wine sour, sweet aftertaste, can be distinguished from the coffee tree leaves and beans, Bourbon leaves are relatively wide, the firm coffee cherries are relatively small, the production is relatively dense, so the bean appearance for Typica is relatively small, relatively round.

In Kenya and Tanzania, artificial hybrid breeding using Bourbon progeny resulted in new artificial varieties "SL28" and "SL34", which are known for their excellent flavor performance. Bourbon has a higher seed yield than Typica, but the harvest period is also 2 years, which is also a variety with less yield.