1. Different origins
1. Big-leaf Kuding tea: mostly produced in Hainan and Guangxi.
2. Small-leaf Kuding tea: mostly produced in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Zhejiang and other places. It was originally a wild species and was mostly cultivated artificially.
2. Different tastes
1. Big leaf Kuding tea: tastes bitter.
2. Small-leaf Kuding tea: It has the sweetness of green tea, but is less bitter and astringent than large-leaf Kuding tea. It has obvious cooling and reducing fire effects.
3. Differences in appearance:
1. Big-leaf Kuding: The tea is large and black. There are usually three tea leaves when picking. The leaves are large and the tea leaves stretch out completely after brewing.
2. Small-leaf Kuding tea: green in appearance, green in color, bright green at the bottom of the leaves, commonly known as "green mountains and green waters".
Baidu Encyclopedia - Small Leaf Kuding Tea
Baidu Encyclopedia - Large Leaf Kuding Tea