There are nearly 120 different varieties of coffee plants, but arabica and robusta are the only two that can be harvested for ...

Additionally, Excelsa grows as a tree rather than a shrub ... (and at lower elevations) than Arabica and may offer improved climate resiliency over Robusta,” the authors write. “Ultimately, the scale ...

The two types of coffee that most of us drink — Arabica and robusta ... as his robusta trees have succumbed to pests and disease, he has replaced them with Liberica trees.

Alas, liberica’s time at the top of the (coffee) tree did not ... The more expensive arabica beans are used for smooth-tasting, high-end blends and specialty coffees. Robusta, on the other ...

The four main species of coffee beans are arabica, robusta, liberica, and excelsa ... and on towering plants that look like ...

BAO LOC, Vietnam — For decades, the world of coffee has had one star: the arabica ... Apart from robusta, the project is experimenting with other species of coffee, including liberica, which ...

The Liberica coffee tree itself is distinctive ... Unlike the smaller Arabica or Robusta bushes, Liberica produces beans from flowers blooming along its elongated branches, with fruit that ...

Catherine Bashiama runs her fingers along the branches of the coffee tree she’s raised from a seedling, searching anxiously for its first fruit buds since she planted it three years ago.

While robusta coffee grows uniformly in clusters and can be picked all at once, the cherries on an arabica tree need to be picked off individually because they ripen at different times ...