Castillo
Variety of Arabica coffee · Coffea arabica
Colombia's rust-resistant workhorse – high yield with a good, balanced cup.
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5🇨🇴 Colombia 2005
Taste & characteristics
Taste
mildsweetaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Caturra x Timor-Hybrid (Catimor-Linie)
- Breeder
- Cenicafé (Kolumbien)
- Pollination
- self-fertile
Description
Fruit
Red cherries, balanced and clean cup; markedly improved quality over early Catimors.
Growth
Compact, vigorous bush; distributed as regionally adapted composites of several lines.
Yield
High yield and good rust resistance – enabling stable farming without costly fungicides.
Notes
Rust resistance comes from the Timor Hybrid. The dominant cultivar in Colombia.
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