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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.
Article · Regions & Origin
No one has legally picked a Da Hong Pao mother tree since 2006
The six original Da Hong Pao mother bushes have not been legally picked since 2006, so every bag sold under that name since is a cutting-propagated stand-in, priced against an original that left the market for good.
Guide · Regions & Origin
Yancha, Wuyi Rock Tea
Yancha is the oxidized, charcoal-fired oolong of the Wuyi cliffs, sorted by the state into five official categories.