It is harvested from the coffee-plant species Coffea arabica, which is native to Yemen.
Mocha coffee beans are very small, hard, have an irregular round shape, and are olive green to pale yellow in color.
[2] As of 1911[update], the export market had mostly moved to Aden and Hodeida.
[3] The current central market for Yemeni coffee is at Bayt al-Faqih, about 140 km north of Mocha.
[4] This coffee is grown in the mountain districts of Jabal Haraz, al-Udayn (sometimes written Uden), and Ta'izz, to the east.