Write a short description of a tea estate
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Pruned and shaped by man over 50 or so years, the tea plants become real dwarf-trees and form strange plantations, a mixture of massive green covers and miniature forests.
The tea plant belongs to the Camelia family. There are two main varieties of the camelia sinensis or thea sinensis: the Chinese type, known as sinensis, with small and olive green leaves; and the Assam variety, known as assamica, which has large, pale, plump leaves. Other varieties have now appeared as a result of hybridization, grafting, propagation from cuttings etc, with many hybrids known as jats or clonals.
The cultivated tea plant is a bush with evergreen leaves, the upper surfaces of which are shiny and the undersides matt and paler. The young leaves and buds are covered with a light, silvery down, hence their name known as "Pekoe" after the Chinese word Pak-ho which means "fine hair" or "down".