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Top-quality pekoe grades consist of only the leaf buds, which are picked using the balls of the fingertips. Fingernails and mechanical tools are not used, to avoid bruising. Certain grades of leaf are better suited to certain varieties of tea. For example, most white tea is processed from the buds or shoots of the tea plant. [1]
Lapsang souchong, a Wuyi tea and possibly the first black tea to be produced, [13] was separately traded as "Souchong" for a higher price, while the highest quality black tea was given the name "Pekoe" (Chinese: 白花; pinyin: báihuā; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pe̍h-hoe), referring to the downy white hair on the young leaves). The term "Bohea" came to ...
Because of its scarcity and superior tea quality, Da Hong Pao is known as the "King of Tea". [8] In 2006, the Wuyi city government insured these 6 mother trees with a value of 100 million RMB. [ 9 ] In the same year, the Wuyi city government also decided to prohibit anyone from privately collecting teas from the mother Da Hong Pao tea trees. [ 10 ]
Swee-Touch-Nee Tea is a brand of orange pekoe black tea founded in approximately 1880 by the now-dissolved Consolidated Tea Company Inc, one of the oldest Jewish companies in America. [1] Swee-Touch-Nee Tea derives its name from the loose Russian transliteration of "tsvetochnyy chay", which translates to "flowery tea."
What the leaf looks like doesn't matter, if it's completely oxidized it's black tea. The term Orang Pekoe is a classification which means high quality leaves (such as the white haired tips of the plant) were used to make the black tea. Does that make sense? Brainsik 02:31, 11 June 2006 (UTC) Orange Pekoe grading is used for black teas.
Cephaleuros parasiticus is a plant pathogenic member of the chlorophyta, or green algae.It infects several commercially important crops including tea.Unlike the majority of pathogenic Cephaleuros species, it penetrates the epidermis of plants and is not constrained to subcuticular growth.
Theaceae (/ θ i ˈ eɪ s i i /), the tea family, is a family of flowering plants comprising shrubs and trees, including the economically important tea plant, and the ornamental camellias. It can be described as having from seven to 40 genera , depending on the source and the method of circumscription used.
Baihao Yinzhen (simplified Chinese: 白 毫 银 针; traditional Chinese: 白 毫 銀 針; pinyin: báiháo yínzhēn; Wade–Giles: pai 2-hao 2 yin 2-chên 1; pronounced [pǎɪ.xǎʊ ǐn.ʈʂə́n]), also known as White Hair Silver Needle, is a white tea produced in Fujian Province in China. [1]