Typica

Variety of Arabica coffee · Coffea arabica

The classic ancestral Arabica – clean, refined cup with outstanding clarity but low yield.

Also known as: Criollo, Sumatra, Kona

🇾🇪 YE 1700

Taste & characteristics

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Red cherries with long, relatively large beans. Considered the benchmark for a clean, classic cup.

Tall, conical shrub with bronze-tipped young leaves; sparsely branched with low planting density.

Low yield. Evergreen, with several flowering/ripening cycles per year depending on region; main harvest tied to altitude.

Susceptible to coffee leaf rust and coffee berry disease. Basis of many local selections worldwide.

Site, soil, hardiness and growth follow the species Arabica coffee unless the variety states otherwise. Will it grow where you live? → Check your site on the species page

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