Variety
K7
A Kenyan selection for lower, drier farms, with some resistance to leaf rust.
- Species
- Coffea arabica
- Lineage
- French Mission selection from Legetet estate, Kenya (1936)
- Stature
- Tall
- Yield
- Medium
- Best altitude
- Below 1,600 m
- Leaf rust
- Moderately resistant
- Quality
- Good
Where it grows
- Muhoroni, Kenya
- Kisii, Kenya
About
The planter R. H. Walker picked K7 from French Mission trees on his Legetet estate near Muhoroni in western Kenya in 1936. It does better than SL28 and SL34 on lower farms and has some resistance to leaf rust, though not to coffee berry disease.