Shui Jin Gui
Shui Jin Gui ( Chinese 水 金龜 , Pinyin shuǐ jīn guī - "Golden Sea Turtle") is an Oolong tea from the group of Wuyi or stone teas (yan cha). The tea is one of the " four famous tea bushes " ( 四大名欉 , sì dà ming cong - "Four Large bushes") of the Wuyi Mountains in the northwest of the province of Fujian and thus the original tea plants, obtained from the leaves oolong tea becomes.
The variety of the Shui-Jin-Gui tea plant originally comes from the Du Ge Zhao Mountain in the inner Wuyi Mountains. About cuttings vegetatively propagated tea bushes in the region are mostly since the 1980s in central grown. Today no tea is harvested from the original plants that have been preserved. Similar to Da Hong Pao, the bushes are kept medium-sized, their branches grow close together. The elliptical, serrated dark green leaves, curled at the edge, fold in a characteristic way. The dry tea leaves are bluish-black in color, their infusion has a clear, deep orange color.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Mary Lou Heiss, Robert J. Heiss: The story of tea: A cultural history and drinking guide . Potter / TenSpeed / Harmony, 2011, ISBN 978-1-60774-172-5 , pp. 333 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Description on the-leaf.org , accessed February 10, 2018