There’s common joke about people who think Yorkshire tea is grown there.

But it could be. It’s a camellia plant from N Asia & can handle at least -10C.

We only *think* of it as tropical as that’s where Brits set up tea plantations to take advantage of exploited colonial labour.

In fact, tea *hates* the heat of tropical climates.

That’s why it’s grown at high altitude, in the only places in the tropics where it is cool enough for it.

So colonialists had to be inventive to get the plants they stole from China to survive & be commercially viable.

If you are cross about this thread...

First, have a cuppa.

Then consider tea is a species of Camellia. When these were 1st introduced to Yorkshire, people constructed elaborate heated glasshouses to grow these exotic specimens.

Till they realised they didn’t need them at all.

And if you are still steaming about the idea, I’d invite you to check out @TeaScotland who have growers as far north as Orkney.

It will probably be a better use of your time than googling random locations in Asia to ‘prove’ to an Asian botanist how plants in Asia are grown.