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Camellia sinensis is a plant species native to East Asia that produces leaves used to make tea, one of the world's most widely consumed beverages. The same plant is the source of green tea, black tea, and other tea varieties, which differ based on how the leaves are processed after harvesting.
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SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderEricales
- FamilyTheaceae
Native toAssam, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
Chile Central
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Research
6,976 papers- Safety Assessment of Camellia sinensis-Derived Ingredients As Used in Cosmetics.International journal of toxicology · 2019
- Camellia sinensis: historical perspectives and future prospects.Journal of agromedicine · 2005
Article
Camellia sinensis is a species of evergreen shrub or small tree in the flowering plant family Theaceae. Its leaves, leaf buds, and stems are used to produce tea. Common names include tea plant, tea shrub, and tea tree (unrelated to Melaleuca alternifolia, the source of tea tree oil, or the genus Leptospermum commonly called tea tree).
White tea, yellow tea, green tea, oolong, dark tea (which includes pu-erh tea) and black tea are all made from two of the five varieties which form the main crops now grown, C. sinensis var. sinensis and C. s. var. assamica, but are processed differently to attain varying levels of oxidation with black tea being the most oxidized and white being the least. Kukicha (twig tea) is also made from C. sinensis, but uses twigs and stems rather than leaves.
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