Mike was looking for a specific tea with a range of oxidation. I
suggested Darjeeling and TKY. It triggered another question in my
mind. Many of my Chinese green teas have the expected dried and wet
green look. Id say just as many have dont look green at all dried but
do wet. A black and white BiLuoChun comes to mind. Im looking at
Tianmu Yunding and Id say it is a black tea with lots of white tip.
The black and white look seems to be the majority of the other off
hand green look. I use black here but I could have well have used red
like the dried look of Keemun. Over the long haul I learned to judged
the difference between green,oolong,black by the color of the spent
leaf. I leave out Yellow and White too not complicate the
discussion. The traditional black/white Oriental Beauty shows dull
red spent leaf meaning oolong verus the bright red of a Hong like
Keemun. So basically for Chinese green teas at least you cant tell a
tea by the dried color. The only way to be absolutely sure is look it
up in a good reference book or my method of looking at the spent
leaf. I think Indian green,oolong,black teas are more straight
forward where there is a tipping point in the oxidation levels visible
in dried leaf color which doesnt seem to apply to Chinese.

Jim