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   atomicpoet (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 16:31:06 JST atomicpoet

   What people don’t realize about tea is that white, yellow, green, oolong, black, and pu’ehr all come from the same plant: camellia sinensis.

   The colours simply refer to a degree of oxidization.

   White is unfermented, green is slightly oxidized, black is mostly oxidized, and pu’ehr is completely oxidized – to the point of fermentation.

   Now if you want to know why black tea tastes different from Indian tea, it’s because Indian tea is a different subspecies called camellia sinensis assamica.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 16:31:05 JST goatsarah

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     @atomicpoet C. Japonica makes pretty passable green tea too, but the leaves are too waxy for it to work well as a crop.
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     atomicpoet (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 16:48:42 JST atomicpoet

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     • goatsarah

     @goatsarah I really want to try it!

     There’s also C. Taliensis. I haven’t tried that one yet.

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