The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its 14 counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri (9 counties) and Kansas (5 counties). With 8,472 square miles (21,940 km2) and a population of more than 2.2 million people, it is the second-largest metropolitan area centered in Missouri (after Greater St. Louis) and is the largest metropolitan area in Kansas, though Wichita is the largest metropolitan area centered in Kansas. Alongside Kansas City, Missouri, these are the suburbs with populations above 100,000: Overland Park, Kansas; Kansas City, Kansas; Olathe, Kansas; Independence, Missouri; and Lee's Summit, Missouri.
Pu'er tea (scientific name: Camellia sinensis var. Assamica), large trees, up to 16 m tall, twigs puberulent, terminal buds whitish pilose. Leaves thinly leathery, elliptic, brownish green after upper drying, slightly glossy, light green below, pilose on middle ribs, rest pubescent, old leaves bald; lateral veins 8-9 pairs, conspicuous above. Flowers axillary, pilose. Bracts 2, caducous. Sepals 5, suborbicular, outside glabrous. Petals 6-7, Obovate, glabrous. Stamens 8-10 mm long, free, glabrous. Ovary 3-loculed, velutinous; style 8 mm long, apex 3-lobed. Capsule oblate triangular globose. Seeds 1 per locule, suborbicular, 1 cm in diam. (specimen information from Chinese Flora) Pu'er tea is mainly produced in Yunnan Province.