Tea and tea colouring samples - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 66422 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 28.01 THEACEAE Camellia sp | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Tea and tea colouring samples | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Tea and tea colouring samples | Geography Description | Canton | ||
| Uses | Tea and tea colouring samplesUse: FOOD User: Man | TDWG use | FOOD | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Dr B Seeman | Donor No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Samples of tea and substances used in colouring of Green Tea. 1. Bohea souchong, 2. Do. roasted in iron pans = Black tea 3. No 2 dyed. 4. Fine siftings of no 3 (Young Hyson), 5. Large do. do. (Gunpowder) = Green tea. 6. Prussian blue, 7.T, urmeric, and 8. Gypsum = These three substances are commonly used by the Chinese for converting Black Tea into Green Tea.x0Dx0APlants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew. May 1998 to May 2016. | ||||