BBC - History - Elisabeth Dakin (c.1848) (#)

  „Coffee originated in the tropical regions of Ethiopia, where the plant, Coffea Arabica, thrives in high altitude rain forests. It was first cultivated by Arab merchants, who introduced it to the port of Mocha in Yemen around the 6th century. Europeans first discovered it a thousand years later.“

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International Coffee Organization

  „Whereas robusta coffee can be grown between sea-level and about 800 metres, arabica does best at higher altitudes and is often grown in hilly areas. As altitude relates to temperature, arabica can be grown at lower levels further from the Equator, until limited by frost. All coffee needs good drainage, but it can grow on soils of different depths, pH and mineral content, given suitable applications of fertilizer.“

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The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide

  „Arabica, Coffea Arabica.  The earliest cultivated species of coffee tree and still the most widely grown. It produces approximately 70% of the world's coffee, and is dramatically superior in cup quality to the other principal commercial coffee species, Coffea canephora or Robusta .All fine, specialty, and fancy coffees come from Coffea arabica trees. “

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The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide

  „Coffea Arabica.  The earliest cultivated species of coffee tree and still the most widely grown. It produces approximately 70% of the world's coffee, and is dramatically superior in cup quality to the other principal commercial coffee species, Coffea canephora or Robusta .All fine, specialty, and fancy coffees come from Coffea arabica trees. “

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Tips on Coffee - The Coffee Plant

  „The genus, Coffea, which the common coffee tree belongs, contains about 25 species. Coffea Arabica is the largest cultivated coffea but other commercially known are Coffea Liberica, Coffea Stenophylla, Coffea Excelsa, and Coffea Canephora (Robusta). By far, Coffea Arabica and Coffea Robusta are the species of coffee plant most commonly cultivated.“

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