Leaves (Tea) - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 51256 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 93.01 ERICACEAE Vaccinium arctostaphylos | Entry Book Number | 172.1884 | |
| Artefact Name | Leaves (Tea) | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Turkey | TDWG Region | Turkey | ||
| Parts Held | Leaves (Tea) | Geography Description | Turkey | ||
| Uses | Leaves (Tea)Use: FOOD User: Man | TDWG use | FOOD | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | HM Consul, Trebizond | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Produced at Amassia and Tokat. Article enclosed by WT Thiselton Dyer, Asst Director, RBG Kew, from Pharm Journal March 21, 1885.*....Though the aroma of the Trebizond tea was so agreeable, the taste of a decoction was harsh and mawkish, wit, h no appreciable resemblance to that of true tea. ...1. The tea in question became a commercial article in 1880; at first its consumption was limited to the country and particularly to those districts in which Circassian colonies had been founded.2. It, is manufactured by Circassian planters in the neighbourhood of Amassia, Tokat and Horek, all in the province of Roum, at a short distance from the forest which clothes the mountain chain called Beldagh, and on which the plant which furnishes the tea in q, uestion grows in great abundance. 3. I have not been able to ascertain the process of manufacture which takes place within the houses of the Circassian colonists who undertake this industry, and who appear to be pretty numerous. 4. There are several g, atherings of tea; that which yields the best quality takes place in May. About 5000 ocques (ocque = 2 3/4lbs) are actually manufactured annually, but this quantity could be considerably augmented if there were occasion for it. 5. At the time of gatheri, ng the plant is in a shrubby state. 6. The tea is sold on the spot at about 5 piastres per ocque. The cost of transport to Samsoon might amount to about one piastre, which brings the price per ocque to six piastres in that town. 7. The consumption is, almost limited to the requirements of the Vilayets of Sivaz (Roum) and Angora (Anatolia). It is to the town bearing the last mentioned name that the greater part of the crop is sent. In 1881 a consignment was sent to France, but the transaction was no, ta profitable one. Some further consignments to Constantinople also do not appear to have been successful. Pharm Journ March 21, 1885 | ||||