Camellia Sinensis Tea Plant Flower

The leaves are glossy green with serrated edges and are similar in both shape and size to a bay leaf.

Camellia sinensis tea plant flower. Camellia sinensis or tea plant is used to make most traditional caffeinated teas including black tea white tea oolong tea and green tea this plant originated near the southwest region of china as an evergreen forest shrub. Identify tea plant via its pictures habitat height. Japonica is well known. Tea plant camellia sinensis is wild edible and nutritious food.

The flowers of camellia sinensis are also made into tempura which is a batter using the edible oil that is obtained from the seed. It looks great in a feature pot and also makes a wonderful hedge or espalier. The flower of tea camellia sinensis l plant has been paid an increasing attention in the last twenty years since it was found that tea flowers contained representative constituents similar to those of tea leaves such as catechins caffeine and amino acids tea flower is theoretically valuable although it has been considered as an industrial waste over a long period of time. However many other camellias can be used to produce a similar beverage.

Cold tea made from this plant is sometimes used to flavor dried. 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 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 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. 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.

Camellia genus of about 250 species of east asian evergreen shrubs and trees belonging to the tea family theaceae most notable for a few ornamental flowering species and for camellia sinensis sometimes called thea sinensis the source of tea. Sinensis is the product of many generations of selective breeding in order to bring out qualities considered desirable for tea. It is found growing at the forest edges and gaps at high altitudes in well drained soils where it grows as a tree of up to 15m tall. The common camellia c.

For example in some parts of japan tea made from c. The camellia sinensis produces a rich display of dense foliage and small single white to cream flowers. Sasanqua leaves is. Camellia sinensis plants are evergreen medium sized woody shrubs growing to a height of 2 to 2 4m 7 8 feet native to south east asia and china.