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Camellia taliensis is a small evergreen shrub or tree from southwest Yunnan and neighbouring areas, grown for its leaves and buds used to make tea, and a wild relative of the tea plant Camellia sinensis. It is grown here as a species, with cultivation on farms in Yunnan.
Camellia taliensis (also known as Yunnan large leaf varietal tea, wild tea, Dali tea, Yunnan broad tea, Fried egg plant and others; 大理茶) is a small species of evergreen shrub whose leaves and leaf buds are used to produce tea.
It is of the genus Camellia of flowering plants in the family Theaceae.
The plant was originally used to make tea by mushroom gatherers who took young leaf buds and, with the help of local expertise, they used the dry buds to make black tea "unlike any others".
C. taliensis is seasonally gathered in early spring when new leaves are produced.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Camellia taliensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
