Tea leaves - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 66260 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 28.01 THEACEAE Camellia sinensis | Entry Book Number | 131.1894 | |
| Artefact Name | Tea leaves | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Burma | TDWG Region | Burma | ||
| Parts Held | Tea leaves | Geography Description | Burma | ||
| Uses | Tea leavesUse: FOOD User: Man | TDWG use | FOOD | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Extract from The Times of Ceylon Dec 5th, 1892. Handfuls of shoots, four to six ins in length are broken off the plant and the steaming being omitted are pressed, fresh and raw into pits in the ground, and left to ferment until such time, as the pony caravans are ready to take it away for sale in Mandalay or other neighbouring market. The lepett is then taken out of the pit, and pressed into baskets, some 2 ft by 12 or 14 ins in breadth at the top narrowing to half the size at bottom. T, hese baskets of tea are slung over the ponies' backs, one on each side, after the manner of panniers, and travellers down the Wrawaddy in the Flottilla Company's steamers cannot but become more familiar than is agreeable with the vilely smelling baskets o, f lepett which are carried sometimes in hundreds as deck cargo, vying in unholy odour with the preparation of half decayed fish which is regarded as a necessity of life by the inhabitants of Burma. Leaves of above were reported on by Mr Hemsley as follo, ws; The samples examined - alsmost certainly C thea. Sir Dietrich Brandis tells me that it grows plentifully in Upper Burma and in the Upper Shar? Hills. WBH 3.11.94. | ||||