Yabukita (Cultivar)
The Yabukita cultivar became popular precisely through this process. It was bred in the early 20th century, registered in 1956 and then cultivated widely as tea production boomed in the 1970s and 1980s. Today, it is by far the most common and popular tea plant cultivar in Japan. (Source: Naoki)
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Cultivar
A cultivar in botany is a type of cultivated plant that has been cultivated for specific properties.
Okabe (2023)
I’ve been drinking this [[gyokuro]] from [[Camellia Sinensis (Salon)]] since 2020 (see [[Okabe 2020]]).