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It's just Ethiopian wild arabica. Desertification is a fact. It is hard to stop when you live on the edge of a massive fireball, isn't it?
by readme 11y ago
It's just Ethiopian wild arabica.
Desertification is a fact. It is hard to stop when you live on the edge of a massive fireball, isn't it?
- Symbiote 11y ago"Just" the wild relative of a very important crop, which is susceptible to disease. The genetic diversity in the wild plants is important for breeding varieties resistantr to rust blight fungus, or any future disease that appears.
- fennecfoxen 11y agoWell, there is an alternative. Not necessarily quite as good of an alternative, but it worked for ruby-red grapefruit. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9408350 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9408350
- readme 11y agoMy point is that it was a misleading title. It should not have blanketed "arabica" when it's only one specific kind of arabica, in a specific region.
- Symbiote 11y agoCoffea arabica means the plant growing in Ethiopia, that's the definition ("circumscription") of the species.