Typica

Also Típica, Arabigo, Criollo, Sumatra

Typica is one of the two founding lineages of cultivated arabica outside Ethiopia and Yemen. Its line runs from Yemen through Dutch plantings in Southeast Asia to a single plant in the Amsterdam botanical garden, from which the Caribbean and Latin American coffee industries were seeded in the 1720s. The tree is tall with bronze young leaves, large seeds and a cup that growers still regard as a quality benchmark, but it yields modestly and has no resistance to coffee leaf rust.

Arabica Typica Rust susceptible

Parents
0
Descendants
9
Countries grown
8
Traits published
8of 14

Lineage

TypicaBlue MountainJavaKentMaragogipeMundo NovoNyasalandPacheSan BernardoTabi
descendants to the right. Each name links to its own record; lineage comes from breeding records and genetic studies cited on each page.

Founder lineage; genome studies find Typica and Bourbon cultivars share a narrow Yemeni base and are distinct from wild Ethiopian populations.

Traits

This atlas's own table
Species
Arabica
Genetic group
Typica
Stature
Tall
Leaf tip
Bronze
Bean size
Large
Yield
not published
Leaf rust
Susceptible
Coffee berry disease
not published
Nematodes
not published
Best altitude
not published
Cup quality
excellent cup potential; low yield
Released
not published
Breeder or selector
not published
Origin
Yemen

Countries grown

ColombiaJamaicaIndonesiaMexicoPeruDominican RepublicHaitiUnited States

Germplasm accessions

No public germplasm accession recorded.