TV1
Variety of Tea plant · Camellia sinensis
Assam's first Tocklai vegetative clone – a high-yielding workhorse for robust black tea.
Also known as: Tocklai Vegetative 1
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Taste & characteristics
Taste
firmaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Klonale Selektion aus Assam-Landsorte (var. assamica)
- Breeder
- Tocklai Tea Research Institute (Assam)
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
Description
Growth
Vigorous, large-leaf var. assamica; warmth- and moisture-loving, frost-sensitive.
Yield
High leaf mass for CTC and orthodox black tea; main harvest spring–autumn (monsoon).
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