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Which labs? Or do you mean botanical specimens held in places such as the British Museum, with which they can compare with to check the species - but not propag
by detritus 5y ago
Which labs? Or do you mean botanical specimens held in places such as the British Museum, with which they can compare with to check the species - but not propagate from - as they're long-since dead?
Seems to me the excitement in this news, which has been doing the rounds for at least a couple of weeks now, is that the oft-threatened single species Arabica has a similarly-tasting 'backup' in case of a global coffee rust pandemic.
- soniman 5y ago"Stenophylla had not been seen in the wild in Sierra Leone since 1954 and anywhere since the 1980s in Ivory Coast, Davis said. A few examples were held in coffee research collections." I think that means that there are a few labs with plants or seeds, but the discovery here is of a wild variety of the plant. Could be wrong.