The Great British Tea Heist
Botanist Robert Fortune traveled to China and stole
trade secrets of the tea industry, discovering a
fraud in the process
By Sarah Rose
Smithsonian.com
March 09, 2010
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Great-British-Tea-Heist.html
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Interesting article, but with a few comments seem in order.
Tea is really a type of camellia bush (a broad-leafed evergreen), which
grows as part of the undergrowth of southern temperate and sub-tropical
broad-leaf evergreen forests across S. Asia. Hence, the great tea cultures
of China, SE Asia,
