liberica

The three most cultivated types of beans are arabica, robusta, and liberica.

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The most popular hybrid belongs to a crossing of _liberica_ and

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The _arabica_ variety has practically been driven out of the districts below 3,500 feet altitude by the leaf disease, and has been succeeded by the more hardy _robusta_ and _liberica_ coffees and their hybrids.

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In recent years, considerable _liberica_ and _robusta_ have been planted in place of the exhausted _arabica_.

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There are many species of _Coffea_ that stand quite apart from the main groups, _arabica, robusta_ and _liberica_; but while some are of commercial value, most of them are interesting only from the scientific point of view.

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Both the _arabica_ and the _liberica_ varieties are grown.

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Cramer states that the beans of this hybrid make an excellent coffee combining the strong taste of the _liberica_ with the fine flavor of the old Government Java _ (arabica_), adding:

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The broad, dark-green leaves have an under side of light green with a bluish tinge; the flowers are large and white, borne in axillary clusters of one to five; the berries are short and broad, in color crimson, the bean smaller than _robusta_, very like _Mocha_, but in color a bright yellow like _liberica_.

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The leaves of _robusta_ are much thinner than those of _liberica_, though not as thin as those of _arabica_.

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Among other hybrids (many were still under trial in 1919) may be mentioned: _Coffea excelsia x liberica_; _C.

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