Introduction to Typica Variety, Caturra, Mundo Novo, POP3303/21 Variety, and Elida Typica

Typica is one of the most genetically important Arabica varieties in the world. Typica is a tall variety characterized by relatively low yield and susceptibility to major diseases, but with excellent quality. Through continuous propagation, by the 1940s, most coffee plantations in South and Central America were growing Typica.

However, due to Typica's low yield and susceptibility to coffee diseases, many regions have replaced Typica with other varieties. Currently, in the Americas, countries such as Peru, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic are still growing Typica. However, some regions are now also growing derivative varieties of Typica.

CARIPE

In the city of Caripe, Venezuela, Professor Gustavo Bonafina Parra of the Eastern University was one of the leaders of Coffee No. 5 in the Venezuelan Ministry of Agriculture and Breeding. During regular visits to coffee rural areas, local farmers showed the leader some Typica plants in the plantation that were particularly productive. In 1958, the leader began selection programs and productivity trials on several farms. The one selected afterward was Caripe, which is now an important regional variety in the state of Monagas, northeastern Venezuela.

Mundo Novo

This variety was discovered in 1943 in Mineiros do Tiete, São Paulo, Brazil. It is a natural hybrid of Bourbon and Typica. It was initially planted in the city of Mundo Novo, which is now Urupês. Since 1952, this vigorous and productive variety has been distributed to Brazilian farmers. It is mainly grown in Brazil and other South American countries (including Peru), but rarely in Central America, mainly because farmers dislike its overly tall size.

POP3303/21

This variety was selected in 1972 from trees surveyed in a plantation in Cyangugu, a western city of Rwanda. It is said that this plantation was growing only Blue Mountain varieties, locally known as BMJ in Rwanda. The Blue Mountain variety was introduced to East Africa from Jamaica through Nyasaland (now Malawi) in 1894. At that time, the only known variety in Jamaica was Typica, so it is believed that POP3303/21 is related to Typica. This variety was released by the Rwanda Agricultural Board in 2003 and is used for commercial production in Rwanda due to its high yield, drought tolerance, resistance to leaf rust and berry disease.

FrontStreet Coffee has also acquired many Typica variety coffee beans, including FrontStreet Coffee's Elida Estate Typica from the Boquete growing region of Panama, processed using natural method. When brewed with V60 at 1:15 ratio, it exhibits distinct flavors of peach, raisin, and orange, with subtle fermented wine notes, sweetness of sucrose and caramel, and a texture like green tea with high clarity.

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