The two most common varieties are Coffea arabica and Coffea robusta. Arabica beans are often celebrated for their sweet and fruity flavor. They’re frequently touted for superior taste ...

As of now, almost all of humanity’s coffee needs are supplied by just two species: Coffea arabica and Coffea canephora, widely known as robusta. Arabica has plenty of varieties, such as geisha ...

Coffee’s story starts in the lush highlands of Ethiopia, the natural homeland of the delicate Coffea arabica plant. Although they are called “coffee beans”, the plant is not a legume ...

It was the yellowing label on an ancient jar of coffee beans tucked away in a herbarium that caught the eye of Aaron Davis, a ...

The beans, labelled as coming from the species coffea stenophylla, physically resembled arabica beans, which account for about 60 per cent of the coffee drunk worldwide (the rest is mostly robusta ...