LDP2
The companion release to LDP1 from the same Vietnamese hybridisation work. Releasing selections in pairs or small groups is standard practice in tea breeding — a programme that spends fifteen years on a cross does not release one plant from it — and it is why cultivar names so often arrive with a neighbouring number attached.
Where it sits in the botany
LDP2 is recorded under Hybrid, the variety group one level above cultivar. It is associated with Vietnam, which is where it was selected or is most widely planted rather than the only place it grows.
Registration code: LDP2. A breeding or registration code identifies the selection in an institutional register and is often the name a grower uses when the trade name is not.
Also transliterated as: ldp2, ldp-2.
Where it came from
A hybrid selection released by Vietnam’s national programme alongside LDP1.
How firm this is: Inferred rather than taken from a primary breeding or registration record. Release year and exact parentage were not verified against a primary source.
What the plant is like
Planted alongside LDP1 across both Vietnamese regions. The two are frequently discussed together and rarely distinguished on any product.
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.
- Black tea — Tea taken deliberately through full enzymatic oxidation, giving the dark leaf, amber-to-red liquor and malty or brisk character most Western drinkers think of as simply 'tea'.
- Green tea — Tea whose oxidation is halted early by heat, keeping the leaf green and the cup fresh, vegetal or marine in character.
Other cultivars in Hybrid
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.