Breaking news: Fish gene found in Camellia

[FrazerHenderson]

Fish gene found in Camellia...

[FrazerHenderson]

Apparently Camellia 'C.F. Coates' has a propensity to throw fish-tailed leaves.
Isn't nature marvellous.

[Maggi Young]

Indeed it is, Frazer.
I wonder what the possibilities are for transferring that gene to the tea camellia to produce tea leaves that swim around the pot to make a better brew?

[tonyg]

Umm - Maggi, its bad enough what our hard water does to the kettle, now you'll have to descale the teapot as well.

[fermi de Sousa]

Fish gene found in Camellia...

Frazer,
did you expect us to fall for that "hook, line and sinker"?
cheers
fermi

[Diane Whitehead]

tea leaves that swim around the pot

I think they already have tea leaves like that.  I went to a tea house in the
Chinese garden in Portland Oregon U.S.A.  It took me a half hour just
to read the descriptive menu.  Chinese tea farmers must spend a lot
of time titivating the tea leaves. Some are rolled into "pearls", some
hand-tied and roasted in a wok, others sewn together which open up into
flowers.

[mark smyth]

My mint tea has tea leaves with added mint pearls. It amazing how the mint expands in to a full leaf again.

I've seen on the internet tea leaves that make flowers. When added to water the leaves 'grow' to make a flower
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