Tea - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 66307 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 28.01 THEACEAE Camellia sp | Entry Book Number | 96.1896 | |
| Artefact Name | Tea | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Burma | TDWG Region | Burma | ||
| Parts Held | Tea | Geography Description | Shan States, Pang District, Maw Long | ||
| Uses | TeaUse: FOOD User: Man | TDWG use | FOOD | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Scott RF | Donor No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Opuscular source: Copy of note of collector Scott, Burma Civil Service accompanying specimen Pu erh is the Chinese Prefecture under which the tea mills are governed since the British Government gave up its rights of the Shan State of Deng Hung. None of, the tea comes from Pu erh itself. The chief centres are Yi Pang, Ingu (or Iwu) and Maw Long and the cultivators are all Chinamen. The tea trees grow to a ht of 30 ft or more and have stems of one to 2 ft circumference. The older trees are covered with, silver lichen. There are three pickings a year, the first of which is sent almost entirely for use in the Imperial Palace at Peking. The later pickings also go to China and are very highly esteemed. Green leaves, flowers etc. were not obtainable. Thes, p sent is of the first picking and came from IWU. Probably the tree is the same as that of Tawng Peng in the Shan States (Gleacondendrum persicum or orientale) The tea is strong but light coloured. | ||||