Coffea
Coffea
Coffea
History of Coffea
• Coffea arabica
• C. canephora (robusta coffee)
• C. liberica Vietnam
• C. congoensis (tolerates temporary water logging)
• C. arabusta (C. arabica x C. canephora)
• C. abeokutae
• C. excelsa
• C. macrocarpa
• C. stenophylla
• C. brevipe
• There are more than 120 identified species /varieties
under the Coffea genus.
• Today the C. arabica and C. canephora are the
most economic and widely cultivated world-wide.
COFFEA CULTIVATION
Current distribution of cultivated coffee species