Robusta (cultivated Coffea canephora, Congolese SG2 group)
Also Robusta, Coffea robusta, Congolese robusta
Robusta is the trade name for cultivated Coffea canephora, which supplies roughly 40 percent of the world's coffee. Genetically it belongs to the Congolese group (subgroup SG2) of a species whose wild diversity splits into Congolese and Guinean populations. Congolese-type trees are tall with large internodes and little secondary branching, late-ripening, drought-sensitive, heavy-seeded and resistant to leaf rust, with caffeine roughly double that of arabica. National programmes in Uganda, Côte d'Ivoire, Indonesia, India, Vietnam and Brazil have released clonal and seed varieties.
Robusta / Conilon Robusta Rust resistant
- Parents
- 0
- Descendants
- 0
- Countries grown
- 10
- Traits published
- 8of 14
Lineage
No parent or descendant is recorded for Robusta (cultivated Coffea canephora, Congolese SG2 group) in this atlas: it is treated as a root of its own line.
Diploid, self-incompatible, propagated as clones or from bi-/polyclonal seed gardens; Congolese SG2 = robusta, SG1 = conilon; Guinean group from West Africa.
Traits
This atlas's own table- Species
- Robusta / Conilon
- Genetic group
- Robusta
- Stature
- Tall
- Leaf tip
- not published
- Bean size
- not published
- Yield
- Very high
- Leaf rust
- Resistant
- Coffee berry disease
- Resistant
- Nematodes
- not published
- Best altitude
- Low
- Cup quality
- lower than arabica; high caffeine and body
- Released
- not published
- Breeder or selector
- not published
- Origin
- not published
Countries grown
VietnamBrazilIndonesiaUgandaIndiaCôte d'IvoireCameroonGhanaTanzaniaPhilippines
Germplasm accessions
No public germplasm accession recorded.