Rooibos


Rooibos tea

Leaves of Rooibos are first oxidized and are then used to prepare a kind of tea with a reddish color.

Names

Scientific
   Aspalathus linearis
English
   Bush tea
   Red tea
   Redbush tea
   Rooibos
   South African red tea
Dutch
   Rooibos
   Rooibosch
Spanish
   Rooibos
French
   Rooibos
German
   Rooibos
Italian
   Rooibos

Taxonomy

Genus
   Aspalathus
Family
   Fabaceae
Order
   Fabales

Crop categories

Herbs
Medicinal plants
Subtropical crops

Pictures


Rooibos tea


Rooibos plants
Photo by Amada44 [CC BY-SA 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons

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