Yabukita
Variety of Tea plant · Camellia sinensis
Japan's benchmark green-tea cultivar – aromatic, vigorous and grown on roughly 70% of the country's tea acreage.
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1🇯🇵 Japan 1908
Taste & characteristics
Taste
mildaromaticrefreshing
Profile
- Parentage
- Selektion aus Camellia sinensis var. sinensis (Landsorte Uji)
- Breeder
- Hikosaburo Sugiyama
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
Description
Growth
Vigorous, cold-tolerant var. sinensis; buds mid-early and forms dense plucking tables.
Yield
First flush (ichibancha) usually late April–May; several harvests per year in the Northern Hemisphere.
Notes
Sensitive to spring frost on new growth; often protected by frost fans in Japan.
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