The emperor (and amateur herbalist) Shen Nung is sitting underneath a camellia sinensis tree while a servant ... where the most common variety is assamica, which has notes of spicy cardamom ...

Camellia sinensis var. sinensis ... Camelia sinensis var. assamica, which leans more tree than shrub, is native to India and ...

The plant that really flourished in India was a subspecies of the tea plant called Camellia Sinensis Assamica. Assam tea tasted better black than green – the oxidation which blackens the leaf ...