BOTANY

The botany section of darjeelingtea.net includes a growing number of documents about the tea plant, Camellia sinensis.

A selection of pages is being prepared to discuss paleobotany, ecology, planting, pests and other aspects of tea in the field. Organic and bio-dynamic methods will be examined as well as orthodox production. Some documents deal with tea in general, where others are Darjeeling-specific.

Camellia sinensis (L.) O.Kuntze
Botanical Origins

 

The Tea Leaf-Webber
(Striglina glareola F.)