Rare flowers and seeds of the tea bush

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Rare flowers and seeds of the tea bush

Seen here is a rare sight of flowering tea trees and tea seeds (inset) at the Tea Research Institute’s tea ‘germplasm,’ at Talawakelle, Nuwara Eliya. These flowering tea trees are used for Sri Lanka’s tea plant breeding programmes. The TRI is developing new tea varieties (tea cultivar), that are pest, disease and drought resistant, using natural plant breeding techniques. Pix by J. Weerasekera [Read full story]

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