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Darjeeling is a hill district in the eastern Himalaya of West Bengal, India, acquired by the East India Company from Sikkim in 1835 and developed as a sanatorium and hill station.
27.0, 88.3 · approximate · British acquisition 1835; tea from 1841
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- A place in: How Tea Moved · 6 places
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- is transplanted to of Camellia sinensis — China-type seed raised in Kumaon was sown at Darjeeling from 1841, and Fortune's later consignments supplied further material to the Himalayan nurseries.
- is determined suitability of of Growing conditions for tea (altitude, rainfall, drainage) — Darjeeling's altitude of roughly two thousand metres suited the small-leaved China variety rather than the Assam type, and the slow growth at height shapes the resulting tea.
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