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Camellia sinensis

Flowering Plants

Camellia sinensis is a flowering plant in the family Theaceae, the species from which all tea is produced. It likely originated in the borderlands of far eastern India, north Myanmar and southwestern China, with its native range recorded across southcentral and southwest China, Assam and the eastern Himalayas, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. The plant is a woody shrub or tree typically 1 to 5 meters tall, though it can reach 20 meters in the wild; commercial plantations trim it to about 1 meter with a flat top. Its leathery, elliptic to oblong leaves run 4 to 22 centimeters long, and it bears small white flowers 2.5 to 3.5 centimeters across with six to eight petals, followed by globe-shaped capsular fruits. White, yellow, green, oolong, dark and black tea are all made from two cultivated varieties of this species, var. sinensis and var. assamica, with China, India and Kenya the three largest producing countries. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Classification
Diet
Photosynthetic Autotroph 1
System (Realm)
Terrestrial 2
Relationship to People
Farmed or Commercially Raised 1
Living or Extinct
Yes 3
Comparison
NatureServe Rank
GNR Unranked 4
CITES Appendix
Not Listed 5
Scientific Name
Camellia sinensis 1
Conservation Status
Data Deficient 1
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Magnoliopsida, Taxa
Source Camellia sinensis (Wikidata)

In Ecosystem

Eastern Himalayas, Ecosystems
Source Camellia sinensis (Wikipedia)
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Australia

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Bangladesh

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Bolivia

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Brazil

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Cambodia

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Colombia

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Ethiopia

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Georgia

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Guinea

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Jamaica

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Japan

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Kenya

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Laos

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Madagascar

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Mauritius

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Myanmar

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Nepal

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Norway

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Peru

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São Tomé and Príncipe

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Sri Lanka

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Taiwan

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Tanzania

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Thailand

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Uganda

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United States

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Vietnam

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Sources
1. Camellia sinensis (Wikipedia)
  • Wikidata Q101815 (P225 taxon name)
  • lead sentence (diet), EntityId 405125
    Camellia sinensis, commonly known as tea plant, tea shrub, and tea tree, is a species of evergreen shrub in the flowering plant family Theaceae.
  • Cultivation
    However, the species is commercially cultivated from the equator to as far north as Scotland, with the northernmost tea plantation at 59°N latitude on Shapinsay in the Orkney Islands.
  • Infobox: status
    DD
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2. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy (species profiles): Species profiles of Camellia sinensis
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy (species profiles)system profile
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"habitat": "terrestrial"
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3. Camellia sinensis (Wikidata)
Wikidata
  • Statements section, conservation status (P141)
    Wikidata Q101815: data deficient (P141).
  • Child Taxon Of: Magnoliopsida, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
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4. NatureServe Explorer: Camellia sinensis
NatureServe ExplorerGlobal rank (roundedGRank)
Quote, Global rank (roundedGRank)
"roundedGRank": "GNR"
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5. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Theales
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12411
Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12411
"cites_listing":"II/NC","eu_listing":"B/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Plantae","phylum":null,"class":null,"order":"Theales","family":null},"synonyms":[],"common_names":[],"cites_listings":[]
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UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Camellia
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 13078
Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 13078
"active":true,"cites_listing":"NC"
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