What country is the origin of tea?

China is the origin of tea. Tea tree belongs to Theaceae in botany. There are 23 genera and 380 species, of which Yunnan accounts for more than 260 species, mainly distributed in Xishuangbanna.

Leaves leathery, oblong or oval, blunt or sharp at the top, wedge-shaped at the base, shiny on the top, hairless or initially pilose on the bottom, serrated at the edge, and glabrous on the petiole. Flowers are white, and sometimes the stalks are slightly longer; Sepals broadly ovate to rounded, glabrous, persistent; Petals broadly ovate, slightly connate at base, abaxially glabrous.

Sometimes adolescence; Ovary densely covered with white hairs; Style glabrous. Capsule 3 is spherical or 1-2, with a height of1.1-0/.5cm, and each ball has 1-2 seeds. The flowering period is from June 10 to February of the following year.

Distribution of Green Tea and White Tea in China

Green tea is an important member of six kinds of tea. It is an unfermented tea and the earliest tea in the history of China. At present, green tea is produced in major tea-producing areas in China, because 60% of tea production in China is green tea, and high-quality green tea is produced in Shandong, Shaanxi, Hainan, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Fujian, Guangdong and other places.

White tea is a kind of micro-fermented tea, which is mainly produced in Fuding, Zhenghe and other places in Fujian. Fuding Dabai Tea, Fuding Dahao Tea, Zhenghe Dabai Tea are the most famous. This kind of tea is refined from fresh tea collected from tea trees, and it is said that it was exported overseas as early as the late Qing Dynasty.