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thunberg-borbonia-not-rooibos · van-wyk-gorelik-2017-cape-herbal-teas
- Claim ID
- thunberg-borbonia-not-rooibos
- Assertion
- Thunberg's July 1772 note about tea made at Paarl concerned Borbonia cordata (Aspalathus cordata), not rooibos; the anecdote has sometimes been cited uncritically and wrongly as evidence about rooibos.
- Quote
Of the leaves of Borbonia cordata the country people make tea (Thunberg, July 1772, at Paarl); no common name was given. This anecdote is sometimes uncritically cited and erroneously associated with rooibos tea (Aspalathus linearis)
- Quote language
- en
- Locator
- page: 20
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