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title: Coffea Liberica
date: 2018-08-17T22:10:49.366Z
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The Coffea liberica tree grows up to 20 metres in height, producing larger
fruits than those found on Coffea arabica trees. This coffee was brought to
Indonesia to replace the arabica trees killed by the coffee rust disease at
the end of the 19th century. It is still found in parts of Central and East
Java today.
Liberica is a small crop in the Philippines. The city of Lipa in the province
of Batangas province became the country's biggest producer of arabica in the
1880s until the industry collapsed due, as with Indonesia above, to the coffee
rust of the 1890s, killing almost all Coffea arabica plants in the area and
threatening the variety with extinction. Today, Batangas and the neighboring
province of Cavite are producers of a variety of liberica known as barako.