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first-record-late-19th-century
Assertion
Rooibos tea is absent from the early literature and was first mentioned in the historical record in the late 19th century; no Khoi or San vernacular name for it has ever been recorded.
Quote
rooibos tea, Aspalathus linearis, conspicuous by its absence in the early literature and first mentioned in the historical record in the late 19th century
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en
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