tea plant

Names

Common Names

• chai
• tea
• Japanese tea
• black tea
• common tea
• green tea
• teabush
• teaplant

Regional and Traditional Names

Scientific Names

Accepted name

Synonyms

• Thea sinensis

Taxonomical Classification

This plant belongs to the kingdom Plantae and the phylum Streptophyta, falling under the class Equisetopsida and subclass Magnoliidae. Within the order Ericales, it is a member of the family Theaceae and is classified under the genus Camellia.

Distribution

This plant exhibits a diverse geographical distribution across several key regions in Africa and the Indian Ocean. In West Tropical Africa, it can be found within the borders of Guinea. Its range extends to West-Central Tropical Africa, specifically around the Gulf of Guinea Islands. Moving toward the northeast, the species is also located in Ethiopia. Finally, it inhabits parts of the Western Indian Ocean, including the islands of Mauritius and Réunion.

Plant Parts

Chemicals

Camellia sinensis has 654 reported phytochemicals identified across 37 scientific publications and several other databases. The most consistently reported chemicals include catechins, Epigallocatechin gallate, Flavonoids, caffeine, Epigallocatechin-3-gallate.

catechins

1. Pharmacognosy magazine
2. Recent patents on food, nutrition & agriculture
3. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
4. Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis
5. Journal of ethnopharmacology

Epigallocatechin gallate

1. Dr. Duke
2. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
3. Mutation research
4. Avicenna journal of phytomedicine
5. Food science & nutrition

Flavonoids

1. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
2. Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
3. Journal of ethnopharmacology
4. American journal of clinical dermatology
5. Andrologia

caffeine

1. Dr. Duke
2. International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity
3. Molecular plant
4. Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)
5. Journal of chromatography. B, Analytical technologies in the biomedical and life sciences

Epigallocatechin-3-gallate

1. Anti-cancer agents in medicinal chemistry
2. Life sciences
3. Viruses
4. Pharmacological reports : PR
5. Acta pharmacologica Sinica

polyphenols

1. Dr. Duke
2. Pharmacognosy magazine
3. Current pharmaceutical design
4. Life sciences
5. Acta scientiarum polonorum. Technologia alimentaria

EGCG

1. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
2. Frontiers in nutrition
3. Acta pharmacologica Sinica
4. Toxicology and applied pharmacology
5. Vascular pharmacology

CATECHIN

1. Journal of global antimicrobial resistance
2. Yakugaku zasshi : Journal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
3. Journal of the science of food and agriculture
4. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
5. Journal of the American Nutrition Association

Epicatechin

1. Dr. Duke
2. Journal of the American Nutrition Association
3. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
4. 3 Biotech
5. Fish & shellfish immunology

Epicatechin gallate

1. Dr. Duke
2. Avicenna journal of phytomedicine
3. Journal of mass spectrometry : JMS
4. Frontiers in nutrition
5. PloS one

Activities

Camellia sinensis has 878 reported activities identified across 37 scientific publications and several other databases. The most consistently reported activities include Antioxidant, Antibacterial, Antimicrobial, Anticancer, Antidiabetic.

Most Reported Activities

Medicinal Uses

Camellia sinensis has 202 reported medicinal uses identified across 37 scientific publications and several other databases. The most consistently reported uses include cancer, obesity, breast cancer, cardiovascular diseases, inflammation.

Most Reported Uses

Preparations