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Comment author: Lumifer 05 August 2014 05:48:22PM 0 points [-]

White tea is harvested early and immature. Black/oolong/green is a matter of post-processing.

Can you provide a link for that assertion? The post-harvesting processing of white tea is quite different from that of green, not to mention black. Also, I believe that while white tea requires top-quality leaves (the bud + 1-2 young leaves) and other teas don't, the top quality greens, oolongs, and blacks use the same "immature" leaves as white.