UBC Department of Asian Studies in Buddhist tradition. The design (courtesy of Asian Studies MA student in Japanese Literature and Visual Culture and graphic designer Julien Butterlin) does indeed gesture in this direction, but the flower depicted is in fact that of Camellia sinensis or Thea sinensis, the tea plant whence many teas are derived. A genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae, Camellia sinensis is used to harvest white tea, green tea, oolong, pu-erh tea and black tea. Tea is the second-most widely consumed beverage in the world after water, and has played and continues to play such a central role in all
Camellia sinensis popular teas. "C. sinensis" var. "waldenae" was considered a different species, "Camellia waldenae" by SY Hu, but it was later identified as a variety of "C. sinensis". This variety is commonly called Waldenae Camellia. It is seen on Sunset Peak and Tai Mo Shan in Hong Kong. It is also distributed in Guangxi province, China. Three main kinds of tea are produced in India: Tea leaves are eaten by some herbivores, like the caterpillars of the willow beauty ("Peribatodes rhomboidaria"), a geometer moth. Although health benefits have been assumed throughout the history of using "Camellia sinensis" as a common beverage,