tea bush is allowed to
What do you mean ? Tea bush do flower and the rest of the flower becomes seed...or they don't get any seeds to plant new teabush or to show to visitors of the * tea museums*.
They are just like the mini-tuochas of puer in the same brand, except they made them sligthly larger for wulongs and shapes are a little different for each kind so you can tell which is which. For that brand, they are not very smooth and not very hard, you can break away a few bits with your finger. For puer, they sell the mini-tuochas cheaper than their tuo chas (that are hard and smooth) and spare leaf puer, and the mini-tuocha contains broken leaves and stalks, it's obviously a by-product and it's meant to be drunk today, not stored to get older. For wulongs, tuochas are obviously a marketing trick, as they are more expensive (by weight) than the spare leaves and is done of the same leaves- that get broken in the process.
A seed of what ?
with a completely
That can be they took a leaf with an attached young leaf not yet opened. They put them in that *glue* (the stuff made of "maybe" ginseng powder) before rolling, and coating it again. Then the chunk of glued leaf is the hard object and it's so well stuck that it never unfolds in your pot. Did you try to open the seed ?
Not all the ginseng teas have the *bird sh...* style. Last time I had ginseng tea, that was leaves not even rolled + bits of ginseng. You can't tell before opening the package.
Kuri