Why does coffee grow in hot climate?
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Why does coffee grow in hot climate?
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Because that’s one of the necessary and correct conditions for the plant to thrive. Coffee plants like not only warm climates (59–79 degrees Fahrenheit) but elevation (mountains) and high humidity. This is because coffee naturally originated in areas with these conditions, such as the highlands of Ethiopia, the rainforests near the Congo, and the higher altitudes of Uganda. Coffee likes these conditions because chilly air or constant changes in temperature may cause damaged leaves and slow tree growth. Coffee plants also tend to do well in well-drained, slightly acidic soil containing lots of organic matter. That’s where coffee trees came into being and that’s still where they prefer to live and grow.
Not really hot but mild tropics. Coffee grows well in the tropics at higher altitudes.from 800 ft or more. Temperature ranges from 12C to 27C is excellent.soil is clay loam to loam of volcanic origin.water is the key for high yield.
You have 2 different coffee plants. C.Arabica and C.Robusta are the 2 different types. C. Robusta has it already in the name, it’s more robust. Robust against deceases, bugs and temperature. Arabica is about 70% of current market, more sold and in general more liked. It grows best between 16–21C, but above 24C the quality declines. Robusta on the other hand can grow from 22–30C.
In short, the arabica grows in sub-tropical or on high altitude in the tropics. Robusta in the tropics or dry countries (Afrika)
Different plants favour different conditions. Some plants favour cold climates, and some hot climates, and some wet soil, and some are drought tolerant, and some like acidic soil and some alkaline soil, and so on.
A plant that specialises in a given type of growing condition will be more efficient in that growing condition than a plant that doesn’t specialise, so it will out-compete any generalists. So, I doubt there are many organisms at all that are particularly generalist where it comes to climate and growing conditions. I presume that they would have been Darwinised.
Coffee is one that happened to come from a hot climate, and after being cultivated it still prefers a hot climate. I did once try to find out if there are any cold climate ways to get caffeine, and apparently there is a type of holly from North America that you can get caffeine from, but it looks like a faff.