Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Specific Families and Genera => Rhododendron and other Ericaceae => Topic started by: FrazerHenderson on August 09, 2009, 09:29:41 PM
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Fish gene found in Camellia...
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Apparently Camellia 'C.F. Coates' has a propensity to throw fish-tailed leaves.
Isn't nature marvellous.
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Indeed it is, Frazer.
I wonder what the possibilities are for transferring that gene to the tea camellia to produce tea leaves that swim around the pot to make a better brew?
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Umm - Maggi, its bad enough what our hard water does to the kettle, now you'll have to descale the teapot as well.
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Fish gene found in Camellia...
Frazer,
did you expect us to fall for that "hook, line and sinker"? ;D
cheers
fermi
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tea leaves that swim around the pot
I think they already have tea leaves like that. I went to a tea house in the
Chinese garden in Portland Oregon U.S.A. It took me a half hour just
to read the descriptive menu. Chinese tea farmers must spend a lot
of time titivating the tea leaves. Some are rolled into "pearls", some
hand-tied and roasted in a wok, others sewn together which open up into
flowers.
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My mint tea has tea leaves with added mint pearls. It amazing how the mint expands in to a full leaf again.
I've seen on the internet tea leaves that make flowers. When added to water the leaves 'grow' to make a flower
http://lagrivemorte.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html (http://lagrivemorte.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html)