青心柑仔
Qingxin Ganzai
Traditional Taiwan cultivar associated with Sanxia green teas, including Biluochun and Longjing.
- Botanical
- Camellia sinensis
- Kind
- clonal cultivar
Also sold or written as 1#
Chinese variants
- 柑仔種Ganzai cultivar
Notes#
Plant. Hu Chih-yi’s institutional profile describes a local, early-sprouting small-leaf line with conspicuously inward-folded leaves. Its precise original selection date and parentage are not established in the sources read.
Use. The same cultivar is used for green tea and honey-aroma black tea. Its name therefore identifies plant material, not one oxidation category. Qingxin Ganzai is distinct from Qingxin Wulong despite the shared Qingxin name.