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== Black tea ==
== Black tea ==


Black Jade Taiwan Tea TTES #18 is a cultivar developed by the Taiwan Tea Research and Experiment Station during the 1990s. The now popular tea is a hybrid of Camellia sinensis v. assamica and a native variety (Camellia sinensis forma formosensis), and is said to have notes of cinnamon and mint.
TTES #1-11, TTES #18 and #21 are [[cultivar]]s developed by the Taiwan Tea Research and Experiment Station particularly for black tea. Most of them are hybrids of native tea trees and a assamica varietal.


== Green tea ==
== Green tea ==