A tall, low-yielding heirloom Arabica with good cup quality, very rust-susceptible. Ancestor of much of the Americas' early coffee.
Typica is the best-known Typica-group variety: tall, bronze-tipped, large-beaned and low-yielding, with good cup quality and susceptibility to the major diseases. It descends from the few seeds sent from India to Java in the 1690s and spread through the colonial world.
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Typica's long trip to the Americas began with a single plant carried from Java to Amsterdam's botanical garden in 1706.
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Arabica is thought to originate in southwestern Ethiopia and was taken to Yemen in the 15th or 16th century.
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Local names include Criollo, Indio, Arabigo, Plume Hidalgo, Blue Mountain and Sumatra.
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- WCR Arabica Varieties Catalog: Typica · World Coffee Research