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3 unusual facts about Coffea arabica


C. arabica

Coffea arabica, a plant species originally indigenous to Yemen in the Arabian Peninsula and from the southwestern highlands of Ethiopia and southeastern Sudan

Hemileia vastatrix

Coffee serves as the obligate host of coffee rust, that is, the rust must have access to and come into physical contact with coffee (Coffea arabica) in order to survive.

Kaffa Province

All plants of the species Coffea arabica around the world are descendants of plants from Kaffa.


Matthaei Botanical Gardens

Tropical house - Collections include Ananas comosus, Annona muricata, bromeliads, Caryota mitis, Cocos nucifera, Coffea arabica, cycads (including a Dioon spinulosum given by Smith College in the 1920s), Heliconia vellerigera, Kigelia pinnata, Musa, orchids, Oryza sativa, Piper nigrum, Rhizophora mangle, and Theobroma cacao.


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