Variety
Lempira
A Honduran Catimor that resisted leaf rust for twenty years, then lost it.
- Species
- Coffea arabica
- Lineage
- Catimor line released by IHCAFE, Honduras (1998)
- Stature
- Dwarf
- Yield
- High
- Best altitude
- 1,000–1,600 m
- Leaf rust
- No longer resistant
- Quality
- Fair
Where it grows
- Lempira, Honduras
- Copán, Honduras
- El Paraíso, Honduras
About
Lempira, named after a 16th-century Lenca leader, was released to protect Honduran farms from leaf rust and was planted very widely. Around 2017 a new strain of rust broke through its resistance, and farms have been switching to Parainema and other newer varieties.