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Coffea dewevrei
Coffea dewevrei, known as excelsa coffee, is a shrub or small tree from the wet tropics of central Africa that was once grouped with Liberica coffee. It is grown as a minor commercial coffee crop, and its care is similar to other coffee species: warm, humid conditions and filtered light.
Coffea dewevrei is an African plant bush species in the coffee genus (family Rubiaceae); it is native to S.E. Cameroon to South Sudan and N. & W. Uganda. It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.
This species, together with its synonyms C. dybowskii and C. excelsa ("excelsa coffee") were formerly (2006) placed together with Coffea liberica (as var. dewevrei). However, recent genomic data analyses supports the division of C. liberica into a separate species.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
