Tagged: chloroplast genome
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Your Oolong May Not Be the Plant You Assume
A 2024 paper argues Phoenix Mountain's single-bush oolongs are a species apart from Camellia sinensis on four measured traits, while the best existing chloroplast-genome evidence nests them inside it, and no study has yet tested the claim directly.
Article · Regions & Origin
Da Hong Pao's Closest Relative Is a Green Tea
Wuyi's Four Famous Bushes are sold and tasted as a family. Chloroplast sequencing of five classical Wuyi cultivars found no such cluster, and Da Hong Pao's own nearest relative on the tree is Longjing, a green tea from a different province.