Fukamushi-Cha

HA!

Cats can be cajoled, persuaded, flattered, and--upon the rarest of occasions--fooled into doing something you ask of them, but convinced? Not hardly! Cats remain the true skeptics of the universe.

At all times, a cat's primary motivation, excluding sex and food, of course, is its own amusement. Come to think of it, maybe sex and food fall under the amusement category, as well.

Martha (formerly known by her cats as 'Our Lady of the Food Jar')

After 800 years you'd figure a monkey troup would learn how to pluck leaves from a tea tree. I guess the smart ones are too busy at the typewriter.

Jim

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Ah, yes; that they are; that we are. (But do they wash the leaves at the shore before eating them?)

Michael

I've got several teas that come from tea trees, some wild some not. Menghai produces a wild tree green pu-erh that's quite good. All of the dan cong family oolongs come from trees rather than bushes (phoenix, shui xian, etc...). While very few of them will be 800 years old, they're not just the hedge-like tea bushes.

Cameron

When you mention Shui Xian I assume you mean the rare strain of Feng Huang rather than the common Fujian oolong?

/Lew

The sources that I've gotten Shui Xian from list it as a member of the dan cong group which is by definition a tree tea. I wasn't aware there was a bush variety. What is the difference between the Feng Huang variety and the common strain?

Cameron

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Cameron and all,

What are your sources? I'd like to read more about tea sub-species varietals, but the only source I know is Clifford and Wilson, whose book costs well over $200. USC and is currently available on the British Amazon.com site for far more than that. Besides, if I recall, it was published over 20 years ago, not that that's so bad.

Michael

The nomenclature refers to Shui Xian as a bush or tree. The pictures I've seen indicates it is a tall bush rather than a tree. It has no trunk or limbs. In our nomenclature it would be a strappling with trunk no larger than an inch or two. I've seen pictures of tea trees with the plucking done by people on ladders with five foot elevation for ten foot high limbs. I think the Chinese word for tree means something different than our description.

Jim

Hi,

the full name of the tea is called FengHuang Dancong. Fenghuang means Pheonix.

FengHuang Dancong are divided in to 2 main types. MiXiang FengHuang Dancong and QingXiang fenghunag Dancong. You can easily differentiate both by the infused tea color. The color of MiXiang FHDC is maroon and QingXiang FHDC is yellow.

Chinese Tea

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Thank you Chinese Tea. So wherein lies Shui Xian in the Dancong group? And can you refer me to printed or internet sources? Not that I doubt you. I'd just like a bit of reading.

And -- sorry if this is redundant; I'm coming in late here -- are we referring to Phoenix Oolong from Guangdong Province with the color correspondences you mentioned?

Michael

I am drinking Imperial Tea Court's Imperial Gold Oolong, which is showing a pale to medium yellow liquor. Can I "assume" this is QX FHDC? The ITC Old Bush Shui Xian showed a much deeper orange.

Michael

No, both the tea taste different. Imperial Tea Court's Pheonix Oolong is FengHuang Dancong.

Chinese Tea

----- Original Message ----- From: "crymad" Newsgroups: rec.food.drink.tea Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 2:44 PM Subject: Re: Fukamushi-Cha

Thanks, I gave that a try and like the results much better than before.

Blues