One leading botanist is scouring remote corners of the earth to find new species that could keep our mugs full An 1896 illustration of Coffea ... grow are getting less and less of it. Arabica ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are 25-100 different species of coffea plants, according to the National ... The two most popular types are arabica and ...

Forget expensive beans and pricey filters – if you want ... is already causing problems for cultivation of the Coffea arabica plant. Prof Jamie Foster, of Portsmouth University, who was not ...

As climate change puts pressure on supply, new varieties are coming to the fore, says the Financial Times' Anjana Ahuja.

Stenophylla is a coffee plant, not a criminal ... all of humanity’s coffee needs are supplied by just two species: Coffea arabica and Coffea canephora, widely known as robusta.