The progress compares and contrasts mentioned above data about how tea leaves are transformed into five various types: white tea, green tea, oolong tea, large leaf black tea, and small leaf black tea.
Generally speaking, there are three main stages similarly: plucking leaf growth, withering, and drying. The operation are similar to each other, but the withering steps of each type of tea are different.
Firstly, during leaf growth, all kinds of tea started from growing tea leaf. Secondly, in plucking progress, tea leaves are picked by hand or machine when they are mature. Next, tea leaves are natural drying or in a controlled environment to remove moisture of them.
White tea, after withering, it is dried without steaming, grinding or fermenting. Green tea, after withering, it is steaming, drying without fermenting or grinding. Oolong tea, it is the same as the leaves above but lightly fermented. Large leaf black tea, it is withering, rolling, and fully fermenting. Small leaf black tea, it is the same as leaves above but the different rolling of large leaf black tea.
In conclusion, all teas have the same initial production process, but each type goes through different steps of steaming, grinding, or fermentation to create the flavor of each tea.