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Anhua Yuntai Shan Zhong

The local population of the Anhua area in Hunan, and the material behind the province’s dark teas — the brick teas and Fu brick with its deliberate fungal growth. It is a landrace, and it is a reminder that dark tea is not made from inferior plants: the material is coarse because the process requires mature leaf and stem, not because the population is poor.

安化雲台山種Camellia sinensis var. sinensisChinaAlso called Anhua populationAlso called Yuntai Mountain population

Where it sits in the botany

Anhua Yuntai Shan Zhong is recorded under Camellia sinensis var. sinensis, the variety group one level above cultivar. It is associated with China, which is where it was selected or is most widely planted rather than the only place it grows.

Also transliterated as: anhua yuntai shan zhong, yuntaishan zhong.

Where it came from

A long-established local seed population in Anhua county, Hunan, associated with the region’s dark-tea manufacture.

How firm this is: Inferred rather than taken from a primary breeding or registration record. The association is consistently reported; the population’s documented history was not verified against a primary source.

What the plant is like

Vigorous material picked to a coarse standard including stem, which is what the pressing and the pile-fermentation of Hunan dark tea need. A plucking standard that would be a fault anywhere else is the specification here.

What it is usually made into

The categories this cultivar is typically processed into. It is a statement about common practice, not a limit — processing decides the category, and a cultivar can be taken down more than one route.

  • Dark tea and pu-erh — Teas changed after processing by microbial activity — either deliberate wet-piling or long, slow ageing.

Teas in the catalogue made from Anhua Yuntai Shan Zhong

Other cultivars in Camellia sinensis var. sinensis

Sources

  • TeaHQ editorial synthesis — TeaHQ

This page is TeaHQ’s own synthesis throughout. No breeding register or institutional record stands behind the account above, which is why the origin note carries its confidence in the open rather than reading as a citation.

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