The 1684 Red sinensis | 1684年红山茶 | 1684年レッド。シネンシス The history of sinensis tree. When the Dutch first planted tea in Batavia in 1684 (now Jakarta), the seed was brought from Japan (Japan’s seed came from China). That tea was the kind called sinensis. Gradually it was replaced by assamica seed from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). It […]
