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Rooibos history — South African Rooibos Council
- Key
- sarc-rooibos-history
- Type
- webpage
- Container
- South African Rooibos Council
Raw CSL JSON
{
"URL": "https://sarooibos.co.za/rooibos-history/",
"type": "webpage",
"title": "Rooibos history",
"accessed": {
"date-parts": [
[
2026,
10,
6
]
]
},
"container-title": "South African Rooibos Council"
}
Claims
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The South African Rooibos Council's history page, accessed October 6, 2026, begins its timeline with Carl Thunberg documenting the rooibos plant and its brewed tisane in 1772, and dates Benjamin Ginsberg's recognition of its commercial potential to 1904, the introduction of green rooibos by the Agricultural Research Council to 1995, and the start of commercial cultivation to the 1930s.
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