What does Arabica refer to?

The term "Arabica" often concerns the type of coffee plant, the shrub Coffea Arabica. It can also refer beans produced by this plant or coffee from these beans. The name comes from the Arabian Peninsula, one of the areas where the shrub was originally grown. It is one of the most produced coffee varieties in the world and in general it agrees to be better in taste and quality for another popular variety of coffee known as Robusta Coffee.

Arabica Coffee is most often grown in South America, Asia, eastern part of Africa and of course in Arabia. Brazil's Earth is the best producer of this coffee variety, although the Brazilian climate offers less for coffee than ideal conditions for cultivation. Coffee plants thrive when they are grown at a relatively high altitude in a slight climate with a lot of rain. In particular, Arabica shrubs when it is planted under moderate conditions of the shadow.

coffee shrubs SMALL sprouts, white flowers about three to four years after planting. Arabica shrub flowers do not need an external source of opyle to create fruit; Rather, they find themselves. Coffee fruits begin to evolve about two months after fertilization. Well -known coffee beans are actually a seed of coffee fruit. The fruit takes about eight to nine months for it from the small green pinhead to a large, dark red berry, at this point the beans can be harvested, processed and burned.

The production of this coffee variety is often more expensive and more difficult than making robust beans, which means that coffee itself also tends to cost more. Robusta shrubs do not necessarily require high altitude for cultivation and can be grown at warmer temperatures. Arabica shrubs are more susceptible to damage by cold temperatures, bad weather and pests. Diseases affecting coffee -leaflet are also less likely to strike Robusta shrubs.

Another possible reason for the cost of coffee variety is that most coffee drinkers tend to agree that it tastes better. As the name suggests, RobThe beans have a robust body, but their taste is less complex and more acidic and bitter. Arabica coffee is often described as smooth, soft or rich and tends to have less caffeine than other commercially produced coffee. The Coffea Arabica beans can be found in many familiar, only origin, gourmet coffee such as Sumatran, Colombij, Guatemalan and Java.