Roger Dewhurst wrote:

"Spiny Norman" wrote in message
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On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 04:38:53 GMT, "China"
wrote in aus.gardens:



variety. The tea we drink is actually a camellia (chinensis?), and again
seed and cuttings work, seed if you want a fresh and vigorous bush.


Close, it's camellia sinensis.



Mostly it is a hybrid between China tea and Assam tea. China tea is a small
slow growing small leafed bush that produces tea of a good flavour and Assam
tea which is a small fast growing large leafed tree which produces tea of
poor quality.

R







The Ti tree is what theyre after not a tea tree. or evan a tee tree,
which I suppose they could confuse with a tree they use to make tees for
golf...