Everything comes to an end. When a tea plant no longer produces many leaves, it is replaced. The lifespan of a tea plant is quite variable, generally between 30 and 50 years, although China claims to have some that are a thousand years old.
The trunk and roots of the tea plant burn well, and heat the oven in which the tea leaves are dried after oxidisation, for example.
2 November 2011
There are two ways of growing a new tea plant. You can plant a seed, or a cutting. Here, Rajiv Gupta, grower at the Tumsong Tea Estate, explains how the…
9 February 2010
Sometimes you don’t even need a seed to produce a tea plant, in fact it’s very common not to. Instead, you take cuttings from a carefully chosen parent plant. You…
13 August 2010
I mustn’t deceive you about the character of the tea plant. Don’t think that just because this shrub is kept close to the ground through successive pruning and harvesting that…
15 July 2014
Due to the harvesting of its leaves, a tea plant does not get bigger; instead its trunk thickens. So a tea field looks more like a bonsai forest. But left…
