Prospects for Tea Production in Papua and New Guinea

Abstract

Botanically the tea plant is usually known as Thea Sinensis, belonging natural order TERNSTROEMIACEAE. There are two distinctive types, one indigenous to N. India and the other to China, the former being the stock from which natural hybrids are chiefly grown in Ceylon and India, and the bushes seen growing in Papua and New Guinea (although the seed was imported from several sources) are of the same North Indian hybrid stock.