Camellia Sinensis Tea Plant Flower

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Camellia sinensis tea plant flower. Buy this product item. Dark green elliptical leaves. Although the japanese camellia is highly valued for its range of colors and availability of double rose like blooms the tea plant camellia offers fragrant blooms in a shrub that is a full zone hardier. The flowers of the tea plant camellia camellia sinensis are white with yellow stamens and bloom earlier than japanese camellia camellia japonica shrubs which may bloom in winter or early spring.

The chinese word for camellia cha hua means tea flower and camellia sinensis is the most popular camellia in the world the plant from which all types of tea are made including white green oolong and black. Their leaves are alternately arranged simple thick serrated and usually glossy. Tea camellia sinensis buy any 3 fruit or berry plants save 20. Genus the first part of the botanical name of the product referring to the genus of the plant.

Flower blossoms are white are quite fragrant grow on their own or they appear in clusters of 2 4 together on short branchlets in the leaf axils. It s the way it s grown and processed that determines the type of tea you end up with. Green tea plant seeds camellia sinensis also known as tea plant tea tree 25 seeds. Camellia sinensis also known as the tea plant is the plant that is responsible for the beverage we all know as tea.

This shrub will flower in the fall. Common names include tea plant tea shrub and tea tree not to be confused with melaleuca alternifolia the source of tea tree oil or leptospermum scoparium the new zealand tea tree. The plant habit is upright the growth rate is average. Harvest leaves all summer long to dry and make into delightful rich green or black tea.

They grow up to 4cm in diametre with five sepals and can have 5 9 petals. The miniature single form flower has white petals with prominent yellow stamens. The leaves are glossy green with serrated edges and are similar in both shape and size to a bay leaf. Their flowers are usually large and conspicuous one to 12 cm in diameter with five to nine petals in naturally occurring species of camellias.

Camellia sinensis or tea plant is used to make most traditional caffeinated teas including black tea white tea oolong tea and green tea. Camellia sinensis is a species of evergreen shrubs or small trees in the flowering plant family theaceae whose leaves and leaf buds are used to produce tea. Leaves of camellia sinensis the tea plant camellias are evergreen shrubs or small trees up to 20 m 66 ft tall. This plant originated near the southwest region of china as an evergreen forest shrub.