White tea is a slightly fermented tea with its body covered with fluffy white hair. The general processing for Chinese white tea only includes two steps: withering and drying. White tea brews to a pale yellow/light red color, and has a slightly sweet flavor with no  "grassy" undertones which sometimes associated with green tea.

Recent health research results have pointed to Chinese white tea as potentially having the largest amount of health benefits of any of the Chinese teas made from Camellia sinensis. The most popular Chinese white teas: silver tip white tea and white peony tea.

The varieties of tea plant for white tea: Fuding Big White Tea; Zhenghe Big White Tea; Narcissus; Vegetable Tea

History of white tea: According to different variety of tea plant and plucking standard,Chinese white tea were ever divide into three types:

(1) Big white: the white tea made from fresh tea leaves plucked from "Big White Tea" variety.
(2)Narcissus White: white tea made from fresh tea leaves plucked from "narcissus white" variety.
(3)vegetable white:white tea made from fresh tea leaves plucked from "vegetable white" variety.

Silver tip white tea (or silver needle pekoe) made from single buds plucked from "Big White Tea" variety. White peony tea made from one bud with two/three leaves plucked from "Big White Tea" variety or Narcissus White.