Caturra Coffee Tree

It presents with a dwarf stature and a christmas tree pointed shape.

Caturra coffee tree. Jose antonio san roman. With sl 28 they failed in their mission to create a high yield tree but succeeded in creating delicious beans with an intensely citric sweet balanced and complex flavor. Caturra caturra is a mutation of coffee bourbon discovered in brazil. Examples of catimor varieties include.

Caturra is a natural mutation of the bourbon variety. Many coffee varieties naturally grow very tall which can make it hard to reach the cherries and make picking less efficient matti foncha is the founder of cameroon boyo he says that unless you maintain the shape of the tree by pruning you have to bend them to harvest and we often end up. First described in 1947. This is a hybrid of mundo novo and caturra bred in brazil in the late 1940s.

Caturra evolved from the bourbon cultivar near the town of caturra brazil in the early 20th century. It is a mutation with high production and good quality but requires extensive care and fertilization. Caturra is also known for being one of the parents the so called catimor family of cultivars. Rows of caturra coffee plants in bloom on a farm in veracruz mexico credit.

Coffee arabica typica has been grown hybridized and perfected for centuries. Caturra has a higher yield than the bourbon variety. The new leaves and buds are green. Various lines of the coffee leaf rust resistant timor hybrid were crossed with caturra to produce a dwarf plant with rust resistance.

The coffee that we want to look at is the caturra variety. Costa rica 95 catisic lempira and ihcafe 90. The botanical genus colloquially referred to as the coffee genus which is comprised of over 120 individual species. Phenotypically it is a dwarf tree with a thick stem with few main branches but with abundant secondary branches and short internodes.

The coffee in your cup is most likely a cultivar. It is short with a thick core and has many secondary branches. Two common cultivars are bourbon and typica. A similar variety called garnica was developed by the mexican coffee institute inmecafé in 1960 61 through the crossing of mundo novo with caturra amarillo.

Catimor interspecific hybrid latin america indonesia india vietnam china yunnan this is cross between timor coffee and caturra coffee. In india this cultivar goes by the name cauvery. Situated in the beautiful western cape province of south africa the caturra africa is a local roaster of only the highest quality coffee s available amongst the large variety of coffee trees there is a very special one which if handled with extraordinary care and attention is known for a high yield combined with full flavour and distinct aroma the caturra tree. It was created in portugal in 1959.

A group of pure line cultivars originating from crosses between hibrido de timors and caturra.