What are the major tea growing areas of the world?
How Do I Store Tea? What is tea? Tea is Camellia Sinensis (thea, or camellia, chinensis). It is an herb but not all herbs are tea. Only those leaves harvested from the camellia sinensis plant are actually tea. There are three related varieties of this plant, the small leaved Chinese tea plant, C. sinensis sinensis, the larger leaved, more tree-like Indian Assam plant, C. sinensis assamica, and another tree like plant from Cambodia, C. sinensis assamica subspecies lasiocalyx. Hybrids are also grown, with the Cambodian plant used mainly for hybrid production. What are the types of tea? Tea is known by the terms white, green, oolong and black. The types are references to processing and oxidization. The simplest explanation is to think of a leaf that is picked or falls from any bush. The leaf turns stages of colors until it is finally black. In the case of tea, oxidization is stopped at various stages. non-oxidized (White) non-oxidized (Green) semi-oxidized (Oolong) fully oxidized (Black)
