Tea is my favorite beverage! What is your favorite tea?
Tea
Tea is an aromatic beverage commonly prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured leaves of the "Camellia sinensis", an evergreen shrub (bush) native to East Asia. After water, it is the most widely consumed drink in the world. There are many different types of tea; some, like Darjeeling and Chinese greens, have a cooling, slightly bitter, and astringent flavour, while others have vastly different profiles that include sweet, nutty, floral or grassy notes.
Tea originated in Southwest China
Labrador tea
Labrador tea is a common name for the three closely related plant species and the name of an herbal tea made from the plants:
All three species are primarily wetland plants in the heath family. The herbal tea has been a favorite beverage among Athabaskan, First Nations, and Inuit people.
Description about the plant.
All three species used to make Labrador tea are low, slow-growing shrubs with evergreen leaves:
- "Rhododendron tomentosum" (Northern Labrador tea, previously "Ledum palustre