TRI 3055
A Sri Lankan clone from the institute’s 3000-series band. Sri Lanka’s programme is one of the older continuously running tea breeding efforts anywhere, and its output is unusually well organised: numbered clones, published planting recommendations by elevation and district, and an extension service that carried the material to smallholders as well as to estates.
Where it sits in the botany
TRI 3055 is recorded under Hybrid, the variety group one level above cultivar. It is associated with Sri Lanka, which is where it was selected or is most widely planted rather than the only place it grows.
Registration code: TRI 3055. 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: tri 3055, tri-3055.
Where it came from
Released by the Tea Research Institute of Sri Lanka within its 3000-series selections.
How firm this is: Inferred rather than taken from a primary breeding or registration record. The designation is genuine; release year, parentage and recommended districts were not verified against a primary source.
What the plant is like
Planted on the institute’s recommendation for particular elevations rather than universally, which is the intended use of a numbered series: the clone is matched to the site rather than the site to the clone.
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'.
Teas in the catalogue made from TRI 3055
Other cultivars in Hybrid
Guides covering this cultivar
- How a tea cultivar is made, and why it takes decades — Every named plant in the cultivar catalogue is the output of a process that runs for twenty to forty years, mostly at public expense, and ends with a plant that growers may or may not adopt. Knowing the process explains why cultivars have the traits they do.
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.