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guoduxing (Guo4 Du4 Xing2) = (过渡型 or 過渡型) literally Transitional Type: especially in a
pu'ercha
context, a controversial term for trees showing some characteristics of C. sinensis and some of other Camellia species, implying that such trees are waypoints in the evolution from the latter to the former; the controversy boils down to whether such trees are just hybrids rather than, so to speak, living fossils
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