Yutakamidori
Variety of Tea plant · Camellia sinensis
Early-flushing southern-Japan cultivar prized for mild, deep-green fukamushi sencha.
🇯🇵 Japan 1966
Taste & characteristics
Taste
mildaromaticrefreshing
Profile
- Parentage
- Asatsuyu-Abstammung (var. sinensis)
- Breeder
- Nationale Teeforschung Japan (Makurazaki)
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
Description
Growth
Very early budding, warmth-loving – the leading cultivar in Kagoshima.
Yield
Early first flush (often already April); commonly processed as deep-steamed fukamushi.
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