Four famous tea bushes in the Wuyi Mountains
The four famous tea bushes ( Chinese 四大名欉 , Pinyin sì dà ming cong - "Four Large bushes") of the Wuyi Mountains are the origin of plants from four cultivars of the tea plant ( Camellia sinensis ) from the northern Chinese province of Fujian . Wuyi teas or Steintees ( 岩茶 , yán chá ) are considered the teas from which for the first time in the history of oolong produced -Tee. The name can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty , but it may be older.
The following types of tea come from the "four famous tea bushes":
The bushes, which are around 300 years old, are drawn in such a way that their branches arise from a single trunk, while the tea plant otherwise tends to develop several trunks. They therefore produce few and rather large leaves. By vegetative propagation via cuttings , the tea bushes of every variety have been propagated since the 1980s and grown in tea plantations. The still-living old tea plants are protected as natural monuments and their leaves are no longer picked. According to genetic analyzes, the cultivars from which Bai-Ji-Guan tea is obtained are closely related to those of Da-Hong-Pao tea.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Mary Lou Heiss, Robert J. Heiss: The story of tea: A cultural history and drinking guide . Potter / TenSpeed / Harmony, 2011, ISBN 978-1-60774-172-5 , pp. 333 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ a b Description on the-leaf.org , accessed February 10, 2018
- ↑ Wang RJ, Gao XF, Kong XR, Yang J .: An efficient identification strategy of clonal tea cultivars using long-core motif SSR markers . In: SpringerPlus; 5 (1) . 2016, p. 1152 , doi : 10.1186 / s40064-016-2835-8 .