Comments on: All Tea Comes From One Species? https://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2005/12/30/all-tea-comes-from-1-species/ After eliminating all other possibilities, the one remaining-no matter how unlikely-must be the truth. Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:56:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.11 By: El https://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2005/12/30/all-tea-comes-from-1-species/comment-page-1/#comment-212938 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:56:04 +0000 http://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/?p=251#comment-212938 hey, thanks for that insight…. you wont believe it but i had a school presentation today on tea production and from previous research had not discovered other species of tea other than camellia sinensis, during the question and answer session after the presentation, however, the question was brought up… i insisted that there is only one species and a member of the class who claims to originate from a tea producing area claimed there were other species and the lecturer asked me to go do further research on it…. so just when i was starting to think i’m crazy, i see your blog and i’m relieved… so thanks a bunch.

]]> By: liam Allen https://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2005/12/30/all-tea-comes-from-1-species/comment-page-1/#comment-1124 Fri, 26 May 2006 15:11:04 +0000 http://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/?p=251#comment-1124 While it is true that all tea comes from one species, Camellia Sinensis, a look at Yunnan Province and Fujian Province in China will reveal that there are actually hundreds, if not thousands, of sub species of tea, many of which will not cross with each other sexually. Fujian province appears to have the largest number of wild tea sub species of any where in the world, while Yunnan appears to have the three oldest living tea trees in the world. Yunnan also appears to have the oldest tradition of tea use.

Think of tea plants as more like grapes, there are few species but a great many varietals. That is partly what produces the wide range of flavours in tea, but we must not discount the effects of terior and elevation and climate on the flavour of the tea. Certainly processing plays an important part in the tea flavour equation as well.

Non-scientific online references:
Fujian Tea: http://www.fzrm.com/Varieties%20of%20Tea%20tree.htm
Yunnan Tea: http://www.tuochatea.com/history_of_yunnan_tea.htm

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