Massive 3,000 Year Old Tea Tree in China Produces Incredible Pu’er Tea

The largest and oldest tea trees can be found in the Ailao Mountains in Yunnan, China. It produces silky pu'er tea leaves worth thousands per kilo.

Discovered in 1991, the largest of these tea trees is 84 ft (25.6m) tall and is 2,700 years old.

Here’s how the mysterious beauty, which many villagers worship, looks like.

00:00 Getting there
00:37 Most expensive tea
01:15 Tree’s history
01:52 A deity
02:36 How to see it

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Producer: Clarissa Wei
Videographer: Lui Chen
Editor: Nicholas Ko
Mastering: Victor Peña

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