Variety
Tekisic
Also called Tekisik
A Bourbon selection bred in El Salvador for better cups and yields.
- Species
- Coffea arabica
- Lineage
- Bourbon selection, Salvadoran Institute for Coffee Research (1949–1977)
- Stature
- Tall
- Yield
- Medium
- Best altitude
- 1,200–1,800 m
- Leaf rust
- Susceptible
- Quality
- Very good
Where it grows
- Apaneca-Ilamatepec, El Salvador
- Chalatenango, El Salvador
About
Tekisic was selected from El Salvador's Bourbon over almost thirty years at the country's coffee research institute, and released in 1977. It has smaller beans than Bourbon and a sweet, rounded cup, and is grown mostly on the volcanoes of western El Salvador.