How many tea leaves to a tea spoon?

Answer 1

This answer varies hugely based on the type of tea. Tea comes in many different varieties, which have different sizes of leaf. Also, the leaf can be processed in ways that reduce its size, and it is often rolled or twisted into forms, such as pellets, that make it take up much less space.

A fully-grown tea leaf from a large-leaf variety that is not rolled will be larger than a teaspoon and will awkwardly stretch over the edges of the spoon, making it hard to spoon the leaves of unrolled, large-leaf, whole-leaf tea out using a regular teaspoon.

At the other end of the spectrum, some green and oloong teas can be so tightly-rolled that dozens of leaves (in the form of small pellets) can fit in a single teaspoon. Also, some tea is made of leaf buds, which are much smaller than mature leaves from the tea plant.

So the best answer I can give is...somewhere between less than one and dozens.

For broken-leaf tea, like what is in most tea bags, this question isn't even answerable because the leaf is so cut up that you can't even recognize individual leaves...and such teas are often blends that mix leaves of different sizes.