Bourbon
Also Borbón, Red Bourbon, Bourbon Vermelho
Bourbon is the second founding lineage of cultivated arabica. It descends from plants the French grew on the island of Bourbon (now Réunion) in the early 1700s and reached Brazil in the 1860s, spreading from there across Latin America and, via mission gardens, into East Africa. Compared with Typica it has denser secondary branching, shorter internodes, usually green young leaves and higher yields, with somewhat smaller seeds. Like Typica it is fully susceptible to leaf rust, which is why most modern varieties are derived from it rather than planted as such.
- Parents
- 0
- Descendants
- 13
- Countries grown
- 8
- Traits published
- 9of 14
Lineage
Founder lineage; the contemporary Bourbon group descends from a single surviving plant on Réunion.
Traits
This atlas's own table- Species
- Arabica
- Genetic group
- Bourbon
- Stature
- Tall
- Leaf tip
- Green
- Bean size
- Medium
- Yield
- Medium
- Leaf rust
- Susceptible
- Coffee berry disease
- not published
- Nematodes
- not published
- Best altitude
- not published
- Cup quality
- excellent cup potential; more productive than Typica
- Released
- not published
- Breeder or selector
- not published
- Origin
- Réunion