Typica is one of the main four branches of the coffee family tree. At the end of the 1700s, the Dutch managed to steal a coffee plant from the Turks in the port of Mocha, Yemen, which they took first to Dutch colonies in Java and East Timor, and then to the Caribbean.
 
Its main characteristics are large beans and a low yield. The plant can grow up to 5m high and its leaves are elliptical and elongated. The flat side of the coffee beans is remarkably smooth and even, and the groove in the middle is bigger and deeper than any other variety.