Wild Purple Leaf Red Oolong

Available from Floating Leaves when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

This is super unique tea. These tea bushes are 'wild' in two ways : One, they are a wild Taiwanese species of tea also known as Camellia formosensis. They are not Camellia sinensis. Two, they are 'feral' bushes -- the word commonly used in Taiwan is Yefang, which means they were planted by someone, but after that were left to their own devices, never getting any kind of modern agricultural treatment whether organic or conventional, not even fertilizer. This means they have to grow deep roots and