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*''Scientific name: camellia sinensis''
*''Japanese'': お茶 ''(ocha)''
Tea, in a variety of forms, is a central element of Japanese culture, and is commonly drunk in a variety of contexts, from the everyday, at home, in restaurants and teashops/cafés, to the more formal context of the [[tea ceremony]].
With the exception of herbal teas, which include infusions of a wide variety of plant products from [[ginger]] to chrysanthemum or buckwheat, all "true" tea, including green tea, black tea, and white tea, is made from the leaves of the ''camellia sinensis'' plant.<ref name=matsuda>Matt Matsuda, ''Pacific Worlds'', Cambridge University Press (2012), 192.</ref>
Tea in China was traditionally most heavily grown in [[Fujian province|Fujian]] and [[Guangdong province]]s. Harvested tea leaves were first rolled in bamboo containers to draw out their oils, and were then place in iron woks over flames, in order to stop them from oxidizing further. The leaves were then dried, and ready to be packaged up for shipment or sale.<ref name=matsuda/>
The first sample batches of tea reached England around [[1664]]. By the 1830s, more than 30 million pounds of tea were shipped from China to Britain every year.<ref name=matsuda/>
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==References==
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[[Category:Flora and Fauna]]
[[Category:Economics]]
*''Japanese'': お茶 ''(ocha)''
Tea, in a variety of forms, is a central element of Japanese culture, and is commonly drunk in a variety of contexts, from the everyday, at home, in restaurants and teashops/cafés, to the more formal context of the [[tea ceremony]].
With the exception of herbal teas, which include infusions of a wide variety of plant products from [[ginger]] to chrysanthemum or buckwheat, all "true" tea, including green tea, black tea, and white tea, is made from the leaves of the ''camellia sinensis'' plant.<ref name=matsuda>Matt Matsuda, ''Pacific Worlds'', Cambridge University Press (2012), 192.</ref>
Tea in China was traditionally most heavily grown in [[Fujian province|Fujian]] and [[Guangdong province]]s. Harvested tea leaves were first rolled in bamboo containers to draw out their oils, and were then place in iron woks over flames, in order to stop them from oxidizing further. The leaves were then dried, and ready to be packaged up for shipment or sale.<ref name=matsuda/>
The first sample batches of tea reached England around [[1664]]. By the 1830s, more than 30 million pounds of tea were shipped from China to Britain every year.<ref name=matsuda/>
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==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Flora and Fauna]]
[[Category:Economics]]