Tag: crassicolumna

In late 2018, various media outlets were all a-buzz about a new (old) discovery. An as-of-yet uncategorized decaffeinated tea plant in Fujian province, China. Some of the articles exaggerated the claim; others got some of the science wrong completely. Put succinctly: a long-forgotten cultivar had mutated. How does that happen? Well, as most tea botany…