Coffee Beans And Tea Leaves Welcome To AboutCoffeeAndTea.com! On this site you can read about coffee Beans and tea leaves: from Hawaiian Kona Coffees and Yemen Mocha to green, white and black teas and the Darjeeling or Assam leaf. These staples in many Western and eastern societies are intriguing brews, and we intend to explore a lot [...]

The Camellia Sinensis plant brings us five different categories of tea: black, oolong, green, white and pu’erh. The difference lies in the quality of leaf used, the type of plucking and subsequently processing of the leaves. Other ways to categorize teas are by country or region of origin, “singles estates” or blends (a categorization similar [...]

Camellia Sinensis – The Tea Bush All teas, except for Herbal Teas, come from just one plant: Camellia Sinensis. Up to 1753 the tea plant was called Thea Sinensis. This shrub-like flowering evergreen plant is usually grown in tropical climates at high altitudes. The best teas are grown at altitudes between 3000 and 7000 feet. Some [...]