Different types of teas?

The Six Main Classes of Tea are white, yellow, green, oolong, black (red), and pu-erh. There are literally thousands of varieties and sub-varieties of each of these classes, so it would be impossible to name them all.

Well all tea leaves come from the same plant, camellia sinensis,and just get processed differently. The four true tea types are: white, green, oolong, and black. But there are a few other popular types of tea: Herbal- usually has no actual tea leaves in it but instead is a mix of berries, flowers, and spices. Red and green rooibos- south African bush that is Renowned for it's health benefits. Mate: which is actually a root

* Black Teas

* White Teas

* Green Teas

* Rooibos Teas

* Chai Teas

* Oolong Teas

* Pu Erh Teas

* Herbal Teas

* Blooming Teas

* Rock Sugar

I joined Doehi Tea Club and I have been a huge fan ever since. You will see that there are several types of tea, and I am going to eventually try everyone of them.

If you want one of the most comprehensive lists of different types of tea on the internet, you might want to check out the page on "Styles and Varieties of Tea" on RateTea.net, an interactive tea website that I run:

http://ratetea.net/style.php

This list is broken into different categories...so if you are only interested in black teas, you can limit yourself to them. There are currently 154 varieties listed but that includes some of the categories you described, including herbal teas that are not true tea, and flavored teas like Jasmine.

There are also "types" of tea that aren't listed there. For example, you might want to look at grades of tea, like orange pekoe: http://ratetea.net/topic/grades-of-tea/17/ - grades are not the same as style. You can have Orange Pekoe Assam tea and Orange Pekoe Ceylon tea, etc. Similarly, within Ceylon tea you can have Orange Pekoe or Broken Orange Pekoe or Fine Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe or all that stuff. Those are grades, not styles.

Also you want to look at regions. Some styles of tea (like Assam, Darjeeling, Pu-erh, etc.) are wedded to a particular region, but others (like English Breakfast) are not...they could be a blend, or a pure tea from different regions. If you want a pretty comprehensive listing of the different regions that grow tea, there's also one of these on my site:

http://ratetea.net/region.php

I hope this answers your question. There's no quick and easy answer, because names of tea sometimes refer to the style of tea, sometimes to the region in which it is grown, sometimes to both, and sometimes (like orange pekoe), to the grade (i.e. size and quality of the tea leaf).

Green tea is not fermented tea, fresh leaves soon after Airing Baidu directly down to the hot pot in the frying or two to keep its green features. This is the largest group of Chinese tea production, and its many varieties first in the world.

The name is derived from the tea liquor color red. Black tea and green tea on the contrary, is a fully fermented tea (fermented greater than 80%). The difference between black tea and green tea, is that different processing methods. Black tea processing, without fixing, and withering, the loss of part of the fresh water, and then rolled (rub strips or cut into particles), and fermentation, so that oxidation of polyphenols contained into a red compound. Part of this compound dissolved in water, some do not dissolve in water, and accumulated in the leaves to form TANG, leaves.

Green tea, also known as oolong tea, fermentation production when appropriate, so that leaves a little red to, is a class between between semi-fermented green tea, red tea. Oolong tea in the six categories of the most complex and time-consuming process, brewing and most stress, so drink to drink oolong tea is also known as Kung Fu tea. It has the thick of fresh green tea, black tea with sweet and pure again. The middle of their green leaf, red leaf margins, it is "green red trim," said.

Fan Catalpa grass tea: lower blood pressure blood sugar, detoxification.

Lu Ding tea: blood pressure, reduce blood sugar. Improve the human immune system

Kudingcha: lowering blood pressure, blood pressure, reduce blood sugar.

Leaf tea: Liver gallbladder, lowering blood sugar, suitable for diabetics to drink.

Mint tea: consumption bacteria, the liver, stomach and intestines, refreshing, conditioning digestive function.

Lavender flowers: beauty lungs, skin.

Pu Tizi: reduce joint pain, muscle pain, calm, clean blood vessels, prevent arteriosclerosis, to ease anxiety.

Peony tea: transfer of blood serum, activation of cells, night sweats, menstrual disorders.

Jasmine Tea: adjust hormone secretion, relieve tension, treatment of abdominal pain, relax.

Purple hollyhock: lung, a cold, strengthening the trachea, cough and phlegm, nose allergies.

Tea: dissemination of the accumulation of pathogenic cold winter in the human body and promote hair growth in vivo yang, it is refreshing.

Green Tea: thirst, digestion phlegm, mild oral and accelerate gastric ulcer healing.

Green tea: emollients, throat, fluid, clear the heat to the body, so that the body changes to adapt to the role of the natural environment.

Black tea: heat warm belly, and enhance the body's resistance to the cold, but also aid digestion, to greasy.

Lemon grass: calm, help digestion.

Calendula: treatment of skin allergies, detoxification, and livers.

Gold Boiling Flower: eyesight, dizziness, constipation, elimination yellow sputum, headache, hot cold, cool fever.

Kumquat fruit: the stomach, helping to eliminate pain, digestion, sore throat, shortness of breath.

European heather: the elimination of fatigue, diabetes, adjusting blood Liver, meridians.

Acanthopanax Tea: anti-fatigue, anti-aging, endocrine regulation, strengthening the immune system.

Raspberry

Blueberry

Apple

Peppermint