«Once you get up around 1,500 feet, it's almost
exclusively ancient plants and animals that can't tolerate heat, and they've got nowhere to go,» says Steve Turton, a climatology and rainforest ecology expert who helps manage the terrain.
This handsome tea is worthy of all our esteem and veneration because it comes to us
exclusively from stands of protected
ancient growth tea
plants in the Yunnan province of China, all of which range in age from 500 to 2,700 years old.