A Sea of Tea Trees

Guizhou has nearly 7 million mu of tea plantations, the largest in China. In Yongxing Town, Meitan County, there is the world's largest sea of tea trees - contiguous tea plantations with a size of nearly 43,000 mu. The province has a rich variety of tea germplasm resources so it can offer a valuable pool of tea plant genes. China Tea Sea Park is planned to be built.

In 1980, a Siqiu tea seed fossil was discovered in Qing-long County, Guizhou Province, making it possible to trace the world's tea history back to 1.64 million years ago. This is the oldest tea seed fossil in the world and also the only tea fossil in the world.

中國茶海

貴州是中國茶園面積最大的省,有近700萬畝茶園,在湄潭縣永興鎮(zhèn)境內有世界上面積最大的茶海,連片茶園近4.3萬畝。貴州茶樹種質資源類型豐富,是寶貴的茶樹基因庫,已規(guī)劃為中國茶海公園。

1980年,貴州省晴隆縣發(fā)現四球茶茶籽化石,將世界茶歷史推進了164萬年,這是世界上發(fā)現的最古老的茶籽化石,也是全球唯一一塊茶籽化石。