Description
Camellia sinensis ‘Dave’s Fave’ is a particularly beautiful tea plant with lustrous, rounded, exceptionally dark green leaves with serrated edges on stems with short internodes. It is a vigorous plant excellent for use as an edible hedge. Large flowers produce few seeds. Has survived -16 degrees Celsius with no injury. An introduction from Camellia Forest Nursery from Chinese seed. Harvest or ‘pluck’ tea leaves during the warmer months. Select only the top three newly flushing young leaves from the branch tips. Research which method to use to dry and cure your leaves as this will determine which type of tea you get. Tea camellias becomes multi-branched and can reach 6 feet or more tall and wide in 10 years with profuse shoots to harvest from. Or keep shrubs pruned to any size you like.
