"Mydnight" > wrote in message
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>
> >So you're sure it's c. sinensis? To me it really doesn't taste like
> >real tea. (But really, the range of tastes you get from real tea is
> >so vast that maybe I shouldn't say that.)
> >
> I wonder if you had good qing shan lv shui or something else marketed
> as it or some poor quality stuff? The stuff I had tasted like tea,
> but I'm not sure the scientific name you have there....educate me.
> heh.

If I may...

Real tea comes from the tea plant, Camellia Sinensis. Herbals/tisanes/etc.
are commonly referred to as "tea" because of the way the beverage is brewed
and are not actually teas simply because they don't come from a Camellia
Sinensis, i.e. tea, plant.

HTH.


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