Bai Mu dan is a type of white tea made from plucks each with one leaf shoot and two immediate young leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant.
Bai Mu dan is sometimes preferred by white tea drinkers for its fuller flavor and greater potency than the other major type of white tea, Bai Hao Yinzhen. The latter is made purely with leaf shoots, and so it is comparatively softer and more subtle.
The typical taste of Bai Mu dan is a result of both the processing and the tea plant cultivars employed in the production.