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A 2024 Paper Calls Phoenix Dancong a Separate Tea Species
A 2024 paper argues Phoenix Mountain's single-bush oolongs are a species apart from Camellia sinensis on four traits, while a 2022 chloroplast-genome study clustered them with cultivated Camellia sinensis, and no study has yet tested the claim directly.
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