De novo genome assemblies of 3 diverse tea accessions, the purple-leaved *assamica* cultivar “Zijuan”, the temperature-sensitive *sinensis* cultivar “Anjibaicha” and the wild accession “L618” were merged with eight existing *Camellia* genomes to generate a new pan genome. To obtain leaf material for the de novo assemblies, plants were grown in the tea germplasm resource nursery of Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.
