Saemidori
Variety of Tea plant · Camellia sinensis
Refined cross yielding sweet, mild gyokuro and kabusecha with a vivid green liquor.
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1🇯🇵 Japan 1990
Taste & characteristics
Taste
mildsweetaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Yabukita x Asatsuyu
- Breeder
- Nationale Teeforschung Japan
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
Description
Growth
Early budding, strong colour; bred from Yabukita and Asatsuyu.
Yield
Favoured for shaded teas (gyokuro/kabusecha); low bitterness, high umami.
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