Taiwanese tea includes four main types: oolong tea, black tea, green tea and white tea. The earliest record of tea trees found in Taiwan is from 1717 in Shui Sha Lian (水沙連), present-day Yuchi and Puli, Nantou County.[1] Some of the teas retain the island country's former name, Formosa.
Oolongs grown in Taiwan account for about 20% of world production.[2]
- ^ Mark Anton Allee (1994), "Tea", Law and local society in late imperial China: northern Taiwan in the nineteenth century, Stanford University Press, pp. 97 et seq, ISBN 978-0-8047-2272-8
- ^ "Agriculture - sectors". Government of Taiwan. Retrieved 2011-03-19.