Posted on August 22, 2007 - by deCadmus
Coffee Geneology — A Varietal Family Tree
…and Typica begat Bourbon; and Bourbon begat Caturra; and Caturra begat Catui and Villa Sarchi (which should not be confused with Saatchi & Saatchi.) And it was good. Well, much of it, anyway.
No, it’s not yet another lost book of the Bible. It’s James Hoffman’s budding effort to map coffee’s family tree. Have a look and see if you can figure out where your cup comes from.1
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- And yes, I worked every bit as hard as you might imagine to *not* use the phrase, “Who’s yo daddy?” in this piece. ↩
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I have updated my post covering botanical varieties of coffee with a link to James Hoffman’s family tree of coffee, and a table of coffee genotypes from a paper published in the Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology which I…