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Default How green is your YinHao Jasmine?

I have something called Spring Bud Leaf tea from a couple of sources.
It is about half white tip with dark leaf which looks like the YinHao.
It is also described as a green tea. The unbrewed raw leaf just
doesn't look green, more brown. My BiLuoChun looks the same color. I
have some Yunnan green with white tip which is more brown than green.
It must be a class of green which is more oolong in color but still
green. I judge a downy tea by the amount of dust. This one doesn't
have any. I guess spring bud held over for fall Jasmine would wither
and change color. Using another Paul Harvey antecedent the jasmine
scent is absorbed through the white tip otherwise the smell would just
evaporate.

Jim

Lewis Perin wrote:
> "Space Cowboy" > writes:
>
> > I have several commercial brands and one online vendor brand of YinHao
> > Jasmine from a Chinese vendor. YinHao means Silver Tips more or
> > less.

>
> I think it means Silver Hair literally, which implies young leaves
> that are downy, unlike, say, the mature ones typically used for oolong.
>
> > There is lots of white tip but the leaf looks almost oolong in color.
> > It might be a stretch to say it is a dark green. However the spent
> > leaf is green. One of my Chinese boxes says Green Tea with Jasmine
> > fragrance. The Internet says the base tea is green tea from the yearly
> > spring scented with Jasmine blossom from the early fall. That seems a
> > long time for green tea to sit around and not change colors.

>
> Or maybe it's the blossoms that suffer through a long winter until
> they can unite with those tender young tea leaves? That would be the
> charitable assumption.
>
> /Lew
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