A compact, yellow-fruited Brazilian selection with large beans and high leaf-rust resistance, released in 2012.
Arara was selected from a natural cross found in a Sarchimor 1669-20 plantation in Brazil and released by Fundação Procafé in 2012 after about 15 years of work. It is a compact tree with yellow cherries and large beans, and is reported to have high resistance to coffee leaf rust.
Accounts of its parentage differ: one says it is a natural hybrid of Yellow Catuaí and Obatã, another says the plantation's parents probably involved yellow Catuaí or yellow Icatu.
Family tree
Arara is a cross of Catuai and Obata.
Grown in
- Brazilorigin
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