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Both ripe and raw Pu-erh tea come from one of the Yunnan Big Leaf varieties of the tea plant. The difference is ripe Pu-erh has been post-fermented artificially before being compressed into their shape, whereas raw Pu-erh is processed with little or no fermentation before being compressed into various forms.
