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An Oolong Cultivar Takes Two Decades to Earn a Number, and Longer to Reach a Nursery
An oolong cultivar clears a fixed government pipeline of field trials, roughly fourteen to twenty-one years, before it earns a number, then a separate license before any nursery can sell it. Taiwan's newest release traces its parent stock back to the 1960s.
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