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Coffea Liberica is a species of coffee that originated in Liberia, West Africa. It is also known as Liberica Coffee or Liberian Coffee which was first found in 1843 in Liberia. Today, most of the liberica coffee trees are grown in Malaysia, Indonesia and Philippines, while some other in West Africa, and India. However, only nearly 1% of Liberica Coffee are traded in coffee trading around the world.
This beautiful long-living plant is strong, lush, with fruits and seeds proportion double to those of Arabica and more immune to parasites attacks. This fruit bearing tree requires high humidity and temperature and plentiful water. The coffee tree grows up to 5 - 20 metres ( 16' - 64') in height, producing larger cherries than Arabica and Robusta species. Coffea Liberica leaves are dark, glossy green, 20-30 cm (8" - 12") long. The plant will only flower when days are 13 hours or shorter.
The coffee was brought to South East Asia to replace the Arabica trees killed by the coffee rust disease at the end of the 19th century. Coffea Liberica has a low tolerance toward cold, it is more common to find this kind of species in low altitude area.
Coffea Liberica can be harvested all year long. It's berries' size are approximately 1.5 size larger than Arabica and become the largest size among all coffee species. They turn dull red or light yellow at maturity. Berries skin are harder and thicker compare to Arabica. Thus, it takes more time to process the coffee beans, and this might be the reason why they have strong smell of aroma and flavor.
Malaysia is an ideal location to grow Coffea Liberica due to it's natural tropical season weather. The average temperature in Malaysia are around 27 degree celcius (80 degree Fehrenheit) with 2500mm average rainfall each year in Peninsular Malaysia (West Malaysia). The full day sun light and plenty of water give the best living condition for Coffea Liberica to grow and produce the full aroma of rare coffee beans.
Coffea Liberica was brought into Malaysia by Mr. Leonard Wray in the year of 1875. Today, about 95% of Malaysia's coffee beans come from liberica plants. The average production of this kind of coffee in Malaysia is only about 160,000 bags or 10,000 tons a year. In another word, it is only 0.01% of the world's coffee trading.
While this coffee is so rare and hardly find in today's coffee commodity, Just Want Cafe would like to bring you the mystery of its taste.
This beautiful long-living plant is strong, lush, with fruits and seeds proportion double to those of Arabica and more immune to parasites attacks. This fruit bearing tree requires high humidity and temperature and plentiful water. The coffee tree grows up to 5 - 20 metres ( 16' - 64') in height, producing larger cherries than Arabica and Robusta species. Coffea Liberica leaves are dark, glossy green, 20-30 cm (8" - 12") long. The plant will only flower when days are 13 hours or shorter.
The coffee was brought to South East Asia to replace the Arabica trees killed by the coffee rust disease at the end of the 19th century. Coffea Liberica has a low tolerance toward cold, it is more common to find this kind of species in low altitude area.
Coffea Liberica can be harvested all year long. It's berries' size are approximately 1.5 size larger than Arabica and become the largest size among all coffee species. They turn dull red or light yellow at maturity. Berries skin are harder and thicker compare to Arabica. Thus, it takes more time to process the coffee beans, and this might be the reason why they have strong smell of aroma and flavor.
Malaysia is an ideal location to grow Coffea Liberica due to it's natural tropical season weather. The average temperature in Malaysia are around 27 degree celcius (80 degree Fehrenheit) with 2500mm average rainfall each year in Peninsular Malaysia (West Malaysia). The full day sun light and plenty of water give the best living condition for Coffea Liberica to grow and produce the full aroma of rare coffee beans.
Coffea Liberica was brought into Malaysia by Mr. Leonard Wray in the year of 1875. Today, about 95% of Malaysia's coffee beans come from liberica plants. The average production of this kind of coffee in Malaysia is only about 160,000 bags or 10,000 tons a year. In another word, it is only 0.01% of the world's coffee trading.
While this coffee is so rare and hardly find in today's coffee commodity, Just Want Cafe would like to bring you the mystery of its taste.
