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Also known as: Camellia sinensis, Thea sinensis
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Campbell Ronald Harler
Adviser on tea to the Central Treaty Organization. Author of The Culture and Marketing of Tea.
Campbell Ronald Harler
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tea plant, (Camellia sinensis), evergreen flowering plant valued for its young leaves and leaf buds, from which the tea beverage is produced. Two principal varieties are used commercially, the small-leaved China plant (Camellia sinensis, variety sinensis) and the large-leaved Assam plant (C. sinensis, variety assamica). Hybrids of these two varieties are also grown. For information on the processing of tea and the history of its use, see tea. The natural habitat of the tea plant is considered to be within the fan-shaped area between Nagaland, Manipur, and the Assam-Myanmar frontier in the west through to China, probably as far as ...(100 of 967 words)

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