7 New Wild Species of Coffee Found!

Posted on Wednesday 23 December 2009

Botanists at Kew Gardens have recently found 7 new wild species of coffee.

The botanists, from one of the world’s leading botanical gardens situated in Richmond, UK made the discovery in Madagascar. At a time when climate change is affecting almost 70% of the world’s coffee crop, this comes as good news to coffee drinkers everywhere.

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Dr Aaron Davies, of the Royal Botanic Gardens, said the coffee trade could “future-proof the industry” by working with botanists.

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