Cinchona vs Tea
Both are Plantation. Each axis is a percentile across all 538 crops — 80 means higher than four-fifths of the table. Where an axis is missing, the crop genuinely is not measured that way.
Cinchona
Tea
| Measure | Cinchona | Tea |
|---|---|---|
| Season | Perennial | Perennial |
| Sowing window | Jun–Jul | Jun–Aug (planting) |
| Days to harvest | 8–12 yr | 3–4 yr to pluck |
| Spacing | 2 × 2 m | 1.2 × 0.75 m |
| Soil pH | 4.5–6.0 | 4.5–5.5 |
| Water | 1800–3000 | 2000–2500 |
| Temperature °C | 15–25 | 18–30 |
| Seed rate | Nursery | 13 k plants |
| Yield | 2–4 t | 2–3 t made tea |
| Watch for | Root rot, leaf spot | Red spider mite, blister blight |