In 2018, Sarmu and two researchers from Kew Royal Botanic Gardens in the UK were on a mission to find the long-lost stenophylla coffee of Sierra Leone. The rare West African coffee plant hadn’t ...

Stenophylla is a coffee plant, not a criminal, and yet it can still lay claim to its very own “Wanted” poster. In 2018, Aaron Davis, head of coffee research at the Royal Botanic Gardens ...

Species with climate resilience, remarkable flavor and scalability — such as stenophylla — are prime candidates. Climate change has already caused ripples in the coffee industry. Brazil ...

In dense tropical forests in Sierra Leone, scientists have rediscovered a coffee species not seen in the wild in decades — a plant they say may help secure the future of this valuable commodity ...

Instead, it’s a newcomer that has the potential to keep the coffee industry alive. It’s called Coffea stenophylla. A close-up of the West African plant Coffea stenophylla, which scientists say ...

The researchers said on Monday that the species, Coffea stenophylla, possesses greater tolerance for higher temperatures than the Arabica coffee, which makes up 56 per cent of global production ...

A rare wild coffee from West Africa called Stenophylla was capable of growing in warmer conditions and tasted like Arabica coffee. This was great news for people who survived on their morning cup ...

That’s why some scientists are so excited about finding other coffee species to breed into the mix. And for Davis, that plant is Coffea stenophylla. Stenophylla, by contrast, is hardier than ...

In 2018, Sarmu and two researchers from Kew Royal Botanic Gardens in the UK were on a mission to find the long-lost stenophylla coffee of Sierra Leone. The rare West African coffee plant hadn’t ...