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Christian Mauerer in a Shizuoka tea field inspecting cultivar bushes

Japanese Tea Cultivars: The Plants Behind Matcha and Green Tea

By Christian Mauerer, founder of One with Tea Β· Reviewed August 2026 A cultivar is a tea plant bred for a particular set of traits and then cloned by cuttings, so every bush is genetically the same. Japan grows around...

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