Assam, the northeastern state of India, is renowned for its rich cultural heritage and stunning land

Assam, the northeastern state of India, is renowned for its rich cultural heritage and stunning landscapes Assam Tea , one of the world's most beloved and cherished beverages.Assam is the only place in the world, other than the Yunnan province in China, that boasts an indigenous variety of the tea plant – Camellia Assamica. Camellia is an evergreen plant which has two distinct varieties: the small leaf variety, popularly known as Camellia Sinensis, thrivesin the cool, high mountain regions of central China and Japan, and the broad leaf variety, known as Camellia Assamica, grows best in the moist, climates found in Assam in India and in the Yunnan provinces of China. The term Camellia is supposedly given in honor of a Moravian Jesuit, Came, (Latin: Camellus), who wrote a seventeenth century treatise on Asian plants. This article is about the Camellia Assamica variety as the original tea plant over Camellia Sinensis and about the romance of modern tea industry that started in Assam.