Wrapped Ball Tea - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 66452 | |||||
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Plant Name | 28.01 THEACEAE Camellia sinensis | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Wrapped Ball Tea | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Wrapped Ball Tea | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Wrapped Ball TeaUse: MEDICINES User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 9 G 7 | ||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Letter - Clapham 28th March, My Dear Sir the ball tea I mentioned in my note varies in quality as does also the brick tea in some specimens the tea has been broken down into a sulphur powder before being compressed. The tea you mentioned I, presume will turn out to be Pekoe Tea of which large quanities are carried into Russia by the caravans but I must see this before I can determine. I have no list of my collection, it is too small for that but I have it in balls .... of state plain and twi, sted faggots and wheat sheaf. The Chinese would distinguish the tea of commerce by the term tea leaf as the call the infusion tea water: which the others would be determined brick or tile and pale teas. The best account of tea is that lately published for, Longman & Co. I remain my dear Sir, Mr Reeves | ||||
| Determinations: | 28.01 THEACEAE Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze 28.01 THEACEAE Camellia thea Link | ||||