Bourbon–Typica (16)
- Acaiá — A widely planted Brazilian coffee variety with unusually big beans, grown across Minas Gerais and São Paulo, credited in the trade to Mundo Novo — and missing entirely from the international variety catalogue.
- Bourbon — One of the two founding Arabica varieties — a tall, disease-prone, sweet-cupping plant from a French island in the Indian Ocean that is the ancestor of much of the coffee grown today.
- Bourbon-Typica group — The genetic family that nearly every commercial Arabica variety belongs to — two batches of seed carried out of Yemen in the early 1700s, and the narrow gene pool the whole modern coffee crop was built on.
- Catuaí — The bred-on-purpose workhorse of Brazil and Central America — a short, heavy-cropping cross of Mundo Novo and yellow Caturra that quietly wins competitions it is never expected to win.
- Caturra — The short Brazilian mutation of Bourbon that let Latin America plant coffee shoulder-to-shoulder — productive, easy to pick, catches leaf rust badly, and still cups beautifully at altitude.
- Laurina — The naturally low-caffeine Arabica variety — a delicate, floral cup with about half the caffeine of ordinary coffee — that won the Varietals category at the 2025 Best of Panama.
- Maracaturra — The giant-beaned cross of Maragogipe and Caturra — a chance Nicaraguan seedling whose selection by INTA began in 1976 and was never finished, leaving an unstabilized variety with no catalogue entry that still places at the top of the Nicaragua Cup of Excellence.
- Maragogipe — The giant-bean mutation of Typica found in Bahia, Brazil in 1870 — a tall, sickly, low-yielding plant nobody farms for volume, kept alive as the parent of Pacamara and Maracaturra and as a Nicaraguan competition coffee that has scored over 90 at the Cup of Excellence.
- Mundo Novo — The accidental Bourbon-Typica cross found in a São Paulo field in 1943 that rebuilt Brazilian coffee after the war — tall, tough, endlessly productive in reputation, and the parent of Catuaí.
- Pacamara — El Salvador’s deliberately bred giant-bean variety — a cross of the dwarf Pacas with the oversized Maragogipe. It is fragile, low-yielding and refuses to breed true, and it still wins the Salvadoran Cup of Excellence more often than anything else.
- Pacamara Amarillo — The yellow-cherry form of Pacamara — a name that appears on Cup of Excellence lot sheets in three countries but in no variety catalogue. Four documented competition lots, all bought by Japanese roasters, none of them a winner.
- Pacas — El Salvador’s own dwarf mutation of Bourbon, found on the Pacas family’s farm in Santa Ana in 1949. It is about a quarter of the country’s crop, it catches leaf rust badly, and it is the Salvadoran half of Pacamara.
- SL28 — The flagship Kenyan coffee variety — a drought-hardy, disease-prone Bourbon descendant selected from a single tree in the 1930s, and the plant behind the blackcurrant taste the world calls “Kenyan coffee”.
- SL34 — The second half of “SL28 and SL34” — a single Kenyan tree selected in the late 1930s under a Bourbon label, which modern genetic testing revealed to be Typica instead. Exceptional in the cup, defenceless against disease.
- Typica — The other founding Arabica variety — a tall, fragile, barely productive tree that colonial trade carried out of Yemen and around the world, and that most coffee grown outside Ethiopia descends from.
- Villa Sarchi — Costa Rica’s own dwarf mutation of Bourbon, found in Alajuela in the 1950s or 60s. It has a small bean, no defence against leaf rust, and it is the Arabica parent of the entire Sarchimor family.