"Livio Zanini" > wrote in message >. ..
> > BaiHao,SilverNeedles,WhiteDown,WhiteTip,oolong oriental beauty are the
> > same.
> Not silver needle: yinzhen
>
> I assumed Hao and Hai would derive from the same Chinese root
> > character (only a guess). Hao is a reverse J with a couple of -
> > though the middle stalk of the character.
> I can't imagine what a Baihai would be, if not a mistake for Baihao


Yeah,

Bai Hao just means, white downy(fine), its just a description.

Bai Hao Yin Zhen, means White Downy Silver Needles, a Fujian Tea. the
buds typically come from small tea shrubs akin to Shui Xian bushes.

Bai Hao Oolong, is an oolong tea which has Bai Hao in it, white downy
leaves, and this is a taiwanese tea. when taiwan was called formosa,
this tea was often referred to as Formosan Oolong by the british, who
liked it for the peachy floral complex overtones. People from mainland
china would call this tea, the beauty of the orient, or rather
oriental beauty, and thus Dong Fang Mei Ren.

I have yet to come across a tea called Bai Hai, the most i've seen is
Fo Hai, in Fo Hai Silver Needles. Might be a typing mistake? or a
pronounciation mistake?