Tagores Camellia

Indian Nobel lauriate Bengali poet Robindronath Thakur who is known to the west as Tagore wrote a beutiful long verse called Camellia.I was always wondering who that could be?I guess he wrote it in one of his regular visit to Darjeeling where tea is the main crops.Here along with tea I dug the root of Tagores Camellia!Who could think that Camellia actualy came from the name of one Rev Kamel!

Camellia sinensis is the species of plant whose leaves and leaf buds are used to produce tea. It is of the genus Camellia (simplified Chinese: 茶花; traditional Chinese: 茶花; pinyin: Cháhuā), a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae. White tea, green tea, oolong, pu-erh tea and black tea are all harvested from this species, but are processed differently to attain different levels of oxidation. Kukicha (twig tea) is also harvested from Camellia sinensis, but uses twigs and stems rather than leaves. Common names include tea plant, tea tree, and tea shrub.

There are two major varieties that characterize this species Camellia sinensis var. sinensis  Kuntz and Camellia sinensis var. assamica (Masters) Kitam
The name sinensis means Chinese in Latin. Camellia is taken from the Latinized name of Rev. Georg Kamel, S.J. (1661-1706), a Czech-born Jesuit priest who became both a prominent botanist and a missionary to the Philippines. Though Kamel did not discover or name the plant, Carl Linnaeus, the creator of the system of taxonomy still used today, chose his name for the genus of this tree to honor Kamel's contributions to science. Older names for the tea plant include Thea bohea, Thea sinensis and Thea viridis.