The main varieties of the Arabica species that we grow are:

• Mundo Novo: obtained from a selection of plants of the Sumatra variety, possibly by their natural cross-breeding with Red Bourbon plants, which occurred at Mundo Novo (now Urupês) in the State of São Paulo.
• Catuai: it's a crossing of the Mundo Novo with the Yellow Caturra* to obtain small size plants, with the objective of making hand picking easier. This variety has lineages with red and yellow fruits.
• Acaiá ("large"): A lineage of the Mundo Novo variety selected because of the bigger size and the superior quality of the fruits.
• Bourbon: variety originated at Reunion Island (formerly Bourbon), in the Indian Ocean. We cultivate the Yellow Bourbon, obtained from the crossing of the original Bourbon, that had red-colored fruits, with the Yellow Botucatu variety.
• Icatu ("bonanza"): obtained by the hybridizing of plants of the Arabica species with plants of the canephora species (which have a natural resistance against the leaf rust) that had their chromosomes duplicated to enable the natural crossing. The original plants were repeatedly retro-crossed with Mundo Novo plants, trying to maintain its original resistance to diseases and to improve its quality. Later, the lineage that we grow - Icatu C 3282 - was developed, by repeated retro-crossing with the Yellow Bourbon. This lineage presents a similar and sometimes even superior flavor profile to the Bourbon.

* The Caturra variety, developed as a Red Bourbon mutation since 1930 in Serra do Caparaó, between the states of Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo, is not cultivated in Brazil anymore.