Coffee originally comes from a single varietal of Arabica found in the Limu forests of Ethiopia. From there is spread first to the Yemen, where then partially roasted seed became part of the silk trade, and eventually thanks to an Indian Monk Baba Budan ends up in Mysore Indian as a seed, and the Dutch then take it back to Holland, and so began the cross pollination and botanical fiddling, that today gives us over 140 varieties of Arabica.
Arabica Tree?
The original varietal is now call typica and is found in Ethiopia, and parts of what remains of the Yemen plantation, planted between 500 and 600 AD.
So I thought I may list a few that I have and will find in the future, there are in no particular order:
- Augustigolia
- Anomala
- Anormalis
- Ihcafé 90
- red Cataui
- yellow Cataui
- red boubon (from the island)
- yellow borbon
- resistant borbon
- Mundo nuvo
- verigado
- SL 28
- Geisha
- Villalosbos
- Agaro Kaffa (after the Kaffa region in Ethiopia)
- Agro Gimma Kaffa
- Barbuck Sudan
- Wash Wash
- Zeguie
- Timot Hybrid (there are a number)
- Arabusta Alemania (guess which plant was used there ;))
- costa ricva 95
- Caturra X Geisha
- Caturra
- Erecta
- RuiRu
- Nana
- Semperflorens
- K.7
- San Bernardo
- Polisperma
- Moca
- Laurina
- C. rasmosa
- Purpurascens
- C. Liberica
- canephora
- Tabi
- Maragogype
- Colombia
- Castillo
I will try and add others as I find them
