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This article does not read like an encyclopedia article at all when there were so many conflicting theory about what it is. The part about flowers in the tea is very suspicious. Most tea are made of leaves, not flowers petals. Someone should research more into the topic and clean this up with more
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To add on the grades: (a) the description of the Dust No. 1, and (b) Dust No. 2 which is not mentioned (both are in Sri Lanka). Please see the text: Dust No. 1 This is the smallest of the Main Grades and forms about 10% of the produce. The liquor is much stronger than BOP or BOPF. The particle size
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a kind of misuse and it happens in two ways. One, the tea inside the tea bags can no longer be of the grade "OP" since it has be ground to fannings or dust before putting into the bags. As such, it is misleading the customer and misrepresenting the content since the dust being sold is not "OP". But
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I think it's difficult to have a picture showing what "orange pekoe" is about since it's a a grading system for black tea. To have an image showing a grade of OP graded tea can mislead one to believe that it is what OP teas look like. The best way I think the grading system can be shown through an
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From the description of the picture it might make a reader believe that orange pekoe is a particular variety of tea. It is simply a term to describe the grade of black teas. A picture of different grades of tea leaves would be much more useful. Remember that the "orange" in "orange pekoe" is up
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As far as I am aware, the buds present in fine tea grades are NOT flower buds, but leaf buds. The end of a branch contains the youngest leaves, and the part of the branch near the trunk contains the oldest leaves and, of course, they are older towards the trunk and youngest towards the tip. As the
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Orange Pekoe grading is used for black teas. Pekoe is not necessarily the Amoy word. As it is mentioned in the article, the origin of the word "Pekoe" is unclear. Chinese etymology can be disputable. As it is rightly written in the article “Despite a purported
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The word "flush" is used but not defined. I assume it refers to a cluster of leaves, but that is just a guess on my part. Be assured, as it is used here, it is not known to the average person. (Normal usages of flush would be in skin color, card games, or to indicate surface evenness, or the
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is captioned that this is a misuse of "orange pekoe" as a variety not as a grading. But this misuse is not apparent just from the name -- I could easily read it as "Ceylon" is the variety, "orange pekoe" is the grade. Do we know for certain that
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sudden gushing of something like a toilet). I found no definition in the 3rd
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