For breeding new Korea tea cultivar. it in very important to get basic informations on major characters of Korean native tea varieties. In these experiments, the characters of leaf and flower, stomota of tea leaves were investigated in 25 native tea varieties. Results of this investigation are summarized as follows Eight native varieties including ‘Songgwangsa Temple’ had 7-9cm in leaf length and four varieties including ‘Jangheung Bangcuon’ hand more than 11.0cm. The number of crenate in the half leaf of native tea plant were 25-30 in 16 locations and the number of stomata per mm' were 111-130 in 13 loactions. According to pistil characteristics, ‘Bulgabsa Temple’ and ‘Bubcheonsa Temple’ varieties showed the same Ld type as ‘TITES No12’ which the pistil is longer than the stamen and the location of splitting point is under two thirds of pistil.
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