Just featured on Fellow Drops, our newest coffee comes from Liquidambar: a Honduras farm named after a tree indigenous to Central America and prominent throughout the valley where the farm is located. Established only seven years ago, Liquidambar has already experienced great success. A washed Parainema lot from Liquidambar was one of the winners in last season's Cup of Excellence competition in Honduras. Finca Liquidambar is a family-owned coffee farm nestled in the Montecillo Mountains of Western Honduras, one of the most productive coffee growing regions in Central America. The farm is named after the Liquidambar tree, which is indigenous to Central America and prominent throughout the valley where the farm is located. Established only seven years ago, Liquidambar has already experienced success in Honduras’s annual coffee quality competition, Cup of Excellence. A washed Parainema lot from Liquidambar was one of the winners in last season's Cup of Excellence competition. The Parainema variety gained recognition in 2015 after receiving first place in the Honduras Cup of Excellence competition. It was developed as part of a national breeding program in Honduras conducted by Instituto Hondureño del Café. It is a cross between the Timor Hybrid, a spontaneous interspecies mutation between C. arabica and C. canephora (Robusta) that appeared on the island of Timor in the 1920s, and Villa Sarchi, a natural variation of Bourbon. Timor Hybrid’s Robusta genetics conferred disease resistance (particularly against nematodes) and high yields into Parainema, while Villa Sarchi contributed high quality potential, culminating in a productive and great tasting variety. Since Parainema plants are not stable from one generation to the next, it is not often recommended to farmers for planting. As a result, Parainema is still rare relative to many other varieties.