Methodology
Sources & Methodology
How the tea data on this site is structured.
Tea profiles on Tea Atlas follow commonly documented tea knowledge — production style, origin, and typical flavor and brewing characteristics — organized into a consistent structured format.
Caffeine levels (low / medium / high and typical milligram ranges) are approximate values for a standard brewed serving. Actual content varies with leaf quantity, water temperature, steeping time, and serving size.
Flavor intensity shown on tea pages reflects the relative prominence of each flavor in the tea profile — it is a curated ordering, not a laboratory measurement.
Brewing parameters are a starting point. If your tea tastes bitter, use cooler water or shorter steeps; if it tastes thin, use more leaf or longer steeps.
Photography
Image Credits
Tea photography is sourced from Wikimedia Commons under public domain, CC0, CC BY, or CC BY-SA licenses, and is self-hosted on this site. Tea pages without a photograph use an original designed placeholder.
Tea type imagery
- Chinese Tea from a tea shop in Xian — Matt Black, CC BY 2.0
- Anhua Fuzhuan Fermented Tea — Kasuga, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Zhu-Ye-Qing-Tea-03 — CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Fulles de Tieguanyin — Francesc Fort, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Yunnan Sourcing "Golden Pig" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake - inner packaging - WikiTea — Ash Crow, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Байхао Иньчжэнь в заварнике — Pannet, CC BY-SA 4.0
Tea imagery
- Oolong Tea wrapped tea balls — Usernet123u, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Black Coffee and Tea in White Cup is Hot — epSos.de, CC BY 2.0
- In the Alishan YUYUPAS tea garden — Hughon-zxl, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Anhua Fuzhuan Fermented Tea — Kasuga, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Huzhou Anji White Tea Manor (20250515 ~ Image 1) — Fumikas Sagisavas, CC0
- Assam-mangalam — Oraola, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Bai Jiguan — Difference engine, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Li Fu Lee at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's radio experiment station, 1925 (MIT Museum) - Restoration — Adam Cuerden, Public domain
- Frisch aufgebrühter weißer Tee Pai Mu Tan — soultea.de/André Helbig, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Bancha img 0594 — Rama, CC BY-SA 2.0 fr
- 20240706 台北市的2021年格式雨水人孔蓋(文山區彩繪風格第一型) — Junyu-K, CC BY 4.0
- Pu'er tea, Green tea, Chinese tea, Rostov-on-Don, Russia — Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0
- 景迈山 2026-04-06 01 — xiquinhosilva, CC BY 4.0
- Ceylon-lumbini — Oraola, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Ceylon tea packers (NYPL Hades-2359886-4044651) — Scan by NYPL, Public domain
- <div class="fn"> Ceylon National Pavilion, Tea House (1904 World's Fair).</div> — Unknown, Public domain
- China Quality Safety logo — Galaxyharrylion, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Cosplayer of Chun-Mei sitting on the bridge (50988675093) — Wei-Te Wong, CC BY-SA 2.0
- <div class="fn"> <div style="font-weight:bold;display:inline-block;"><div style="display:inline-block" dir="ltr" lang="en"><i>Standing Portrait of King Yu of Xia</i></div></div><div style="display: none;">label QS:Len,"Standing Portrait of King Yu of Xia"</div><div style="display: none;">label QS:Lzh-hans,"夏禹王立像"</div><div style="display: none;">label QS:Lzh,"夏禹王立像"</div></div> — Ma Lin, Public domain
- Daikouhou 02 — Shizuha, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Dried tea leaves in factory, Darjeeling (8131946218) — flowcomm, CC BY 2.0
- Darjeeling white tea — yoppy, CC BY 2.0
- 大禹嶺歸化農地 — Cristaljuan, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 凤庆滇红茶博物馆-普洱茶1 — 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Yunnan Black TGFOP — Whiteness, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Dongding feuilles liqueur — Pancrat, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 783 3 (+ 3) dancers performing on stage V-P — Virtual-Pano, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Great Earl Grey Damann — Marie-Lan Nguyen, CC BY 2.5
- Breakfast tea biscuits — JogiAsad, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Da Ming yi tong shan he tu. LOC 2002626778-2 — Warner, Langdon, Public domain
- Anhua Fuzhuan Fermented Tea — Kasuga, CC BY-SA 4.0
- GABA tea 02 — Pannet, CC BY 4.0
- Genmaicha Tea in Infuser — Matt Gibson Uploaded by Gothick at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Godess Solotar — Arendaja, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Youcha of Sanjiang 三江油茶 — Klemhao, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Gunpowder tea construction site — Ikiwaner, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Gyokuro tea (Tea Room Toka) — 掬茶, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Stewards’ stand and tea-room for the Armidale Jockey Club (Jockeys' Rooms) Armidale 1909; architect Hugh Scott — Sarimarais, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Hojicha Latte - Rawlab Juice & Tea 2025-03-07 — Andy Li, CC0
- Stewards’ stand and tea-room for the Armidale Jockey Club (Jockeys' Rooms) Armidale 1909; architect Hugh Scott — Sarimarais, CC BY-SA 4.0
- HGY Oolong tea leaf — Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Maofeng Tea 01 — Pannet, CC BY 4.0
- Yang Shenggang calligraphies - Ji Guan Qun Ying — 楊盛崗, Public domain
- Irish Breakfast — Thoslee, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Jasmine tea bag of mainland China — 白洛嘉, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Silver Needle Tea — Retromoderns, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Jin Jun Mei — Difference engine, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Jin Xuan oolong tea after steeping — Difference engine, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Old Tea Forest of the Jingmai Mountain — 919sth., CC BY-SA 4.0
- Kamairicha — Difference engine, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Keemun FTGFOP (2) — Whiteness, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Keemun FTGFOP (2) — Whiteness, CC BY-SA 4.0
- The-IMG 0013 — Rama, CC BY-SA 2.0 fr
- Té Pu'er - Lao ban zhang — Francesc Fort, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Laoshan green tea — Difference engine, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Theae folium "lapsang souchong"1 — Maša Sinreih in Valentina Vivod, CC BY-SA 3.0
- SZ 深圳 Shenzhen 南山 Nanshan 留仙大道 Liuxian Blvd 麗山路 Lishan Road 益田假日里購物商場 Yitian Holiday Village Shopping mall Naixue Tea shop August 2023 Px3 — KAMYAN HONGWING, CC BY-SA 4.0
- JinHua "golden flower" from Liu Bao — Cosmin Dordea, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Longjing tea steeping in gaiwan — Difference engine, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Albarelle MAO 864 Bamiyan XIe 08889 — G.Garitan, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Choc chai - Laughing Dog 2026-02-09 — Andy Li, CC0
- Iced Matcha Tea (small) - GAIL's Bakery 2026-05-23 — Andy Li, CC0
- "JiaoXiangMei" ShaoE(Roast goose) — Suginami, CC0
- Frisch aufgebrühter weißer Tee Pai Mu Tan — soultea.de/André Helbig, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 동방미인1 — Gcd822, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Chaju shizuhaused 23 — Shizuha, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Rose, Black Tea, バラ, ブラック ティ, (14456849796) — T.Kiya from Japan, CC BY-SA 2.0
- (MHNT) Cassia fistula MHNT.bot.2007.26.54 — Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Frances (Appleton) Longfellow to Emmeline (Austin) Wadsworth, August 1839 (6081d495-9fff-4f8d-81f6-edad3d51306f) — Fanny (Appleton) Longfellow (1817-1861), Public domain
- Russian Tea Room 001 — Kidfly182, CC BY 4.0
- Green tea Sencha — Stefan Kühn, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Raw Pu erh — Qirille, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Green tea Sencha — Stefan Kühn, CC BY-SA 3.0
- ExoticFlame — Georg Mittenecker, CC BY-SA 3.0
- <div class="fn"> Pelliot chinois 2567 (+ 2552)</div> — Li Ang 李 昂]. Auteur du texte Wang Chang ling 王 昌 齡. Auteur du texte Meng Hao ran 孟 浩 然. Auteur du texte Qiu wei 丘 為. Auteur du texte Li Bai 李 白. Auteur du texte Gao Shi 高 適. Auteur du texte Li Ang 李 昂. Auteur du texte, Public domain
- HK 水仙花 Chinese sacred lily 高山劇場 Ko Shan Theatre February 2019 SSG 02 — Shingmoa Yeuanfen, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Байхао Иньчжэнь в заварнике — Pannet, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Taiping houkui 13 — Pannet, CC BY 4.0
- Tamaryokucha — Fanny Schertzer, CC BY-SA 3.0
- <div class="fn"> Pelliot chinois 2567 (+ 2552)</div> — Li Ang 李 昂]. Auteur du texte Wang Chang ling 王 昌 齡. Auteur du texte Meng Hao ran 孟 浩 然. Auteur du texte Qiu wei 丘 為. Auteur du texte Li Bai 李 白. Auteur du texte Gao Shi 高 適. Auteur du texte Li Ang 李 昂. Auteur du texte, Public domain
- Fulles de Tieguanyin — Francesc Fort, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Iron Buddha, Goryeo, 11th Century (17752656072) — Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China, CC0
- Vanilla Slice, Jamaica Blue Booragoon Garden City, 2026 (01) — Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Xinyang Maojian — Francesc Fort, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Nanyang Qundao xian shi tu LOC 2006626412 — Li, Changchuan; Shi, Zhonghua, Public domain
- HK Sai Ying Pun 香港商業中心 Hong Kong Plaza mall Cafe de Carol restaurant afternoon tea set food menu price list Jan-2016 — MPacillabepeira, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2005 Haixin Yiwu 400g (2450880599) — teajournaling, CC BY 2.0
- Erica (Thorp) de Berry to Thorp family, 15 December 1918 (00eebcbe-7067-4ad3-b623-7a47fa1f72b4) — Erica (Thorp) de Berry (1890-1943), Public domain
- Mist Glenmorgan Reservoir Tea Nilgiris May26 A7CR 10854 — This Photo was taken by Timothy A. Gonsalves. Feel free to use my photos, but please mention me as the author. I would much appreciate if you send me an email [email protected] or write on my talk page, for my information. Please contact me before commercial use. Please do not upload an edited image here without consulting me. I would like to make corrections only at my own source to ensure that the changes improve the image and are preserved.Otherwise you may upload an edited image with a new name. Please use one of the templates derivative or extract., CC BY-SA 4.0
- OLD STREET(LAO JIE) SHENZHEN (4) — Dinkun Chen, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 202005 Labels of Chu Yeh Ching Chiew in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong — D3threez, CC BY-SA 4.0