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How tall can an unpruned China tea plant grow?

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Neatly planted rows of green tea bushes stretch across rolling fields with Mount Fuji, capped with snow, rising in the background in Japan. — tea Rows of tea (*Camellia sinensis*) growing in Japan, with Mount Fuji in the background.

The China variety of the tea plant (Camellia sinensis variety sinensis) is a multistemmed bush that can grow as high as 2.75 meters (9 feet). While often kept as a low mounded shrub in cultivation to encourage the development of young leaves, this is a result of frequent pruning rather than its natural growth habit.12