Super Foods - Tea

Tea : The Chinese Legacy

From the botanical perspective

Tea is a beverage made from the processed leaf of a plant whose Latin name is: Camellia sinensis. Some people who have been around for a long time in the tea industry still call it by its now out-dated name of Thea sinensis. 

DIVISION	ANGIOSPERMAE
CLASS	DICOTYLEDONES
ORDER	PARIETALES
FAMILY	THEACEAE
GENUS	THEA
SPECIES	SINENSIS
VARITAL	267,000 SEPARATE ONES