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• List of bonsai species
  | Fukien tea tree, ''Ehretia microphylla'' | Chinese Hackberry
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• Ephedra
  ...called '''Joint-pine''', '''Jointfir''', or '''Mormon-tea'''. The [[China|Chinese]] name is 麻黄, ''má huáng'', which means "yellow hemp". Ephedra is als ...edra cutleri]]'' Peebles - Navajo Ephedra, Cutler's Ephedra, Cutler Mormon-tea, Cutler's Jointfir
  8 KB (1,142 words) - 16:59, 21 September 2009
• Thea
  ...aceae. Tea. Woody plants; one species grown for its leaves which yield the tea, the others grown for their handsome flowers and foliage. ...untainous regions of the tropics for its leaves which yield the well-known tea and are an article of great commercial importance. The other members of the
  5 KB (749 words) - 05:05, 21 August 2009
• Ilex latifolia
  ....com/flora/HTML/Info/2006-4/Yuanlin_Flora_159.HTML ''Ilex latifolia''] (in Chinese); [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://www.yuanli ...itute.Ilex latifolia also plays a lesser role in the production “Kudingcha Tea”
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• Rosa chinensis
  ...ortant in the breeding of many modern garden roses, including the [[Hybrid Tea]] roses. ...erflorens, Koehne (A. semperflarens, Curt. R. bengalensis, Pers.). Crimson Chinese Rose. Low shrub, with slender, prickly or almost unarmed, dark green branch
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• Kumquat
  ...frost down to about {{convert|-10|°C|°F}} without injury. They grow in the tea hills of Hunan, China, where the climate is too cold for other citrus fruit ...other Asian countries, where it is sometimes given as a gift during the [[Chinese New Year|Lunar New Year]]. It's more commonly cultivated than most other ku
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• Papaver somniferum
  ...rdeners (except those caught extracting opium via capsule scarification or tea extraction) virtually unheard of.<ref name=erowid /> During the early spri ...of double fringed fls. Chinese poppies are a double-fld. race intro. from Chinese gardens early in 1890, and comprising dwarfer strains than previously known
  8 KB (1,265 words) - 16:32, 4 February 2010
• Jujube
  |common_name=Jujube, Red Date, Chinese Date ...nally for millennia by many cultures. One of its most popular uses is as a tea for sore throat
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• Sassafras albidum
  |image=Sassafras, Saxifras, Tea Tree, Mitten Tree, Cinnamonwood (Sassafras albidum).jpg ...fruits on red fleshy stalks. The native species is hardy North, while the Chinese one which is still little known in cultivation is somewhat tenderer. The Am
  10 KB (1,618 words) - 17:27, 19 May 2010
• List of fruits
  ...itlike base of roses (''[[Rosa]]''); used mostly for [[jam]]s and [[herbal tea]] ...a|Che]] (''Cudrania tricuspidata''; [[Moraceae]]) Also called Cudrania, [[Chinese Mulberry]], [[Cudrang]], [[Mandarin Melon Berry]], [[Silkworm Thorn]], [[zh
  20 KB (2,554 words) - 23:49, 9 March 2010
• House plant
  ...ds, old leaf- mold, well-decayed cow-manure and clean, sharp sand: discard tea leaves, chip dirt, and the decomposed remains of dead stumps. The soil shou ...both do well. Chrysanthemums, cinerarias, gloxinias, gladioli, cyclamens, Chinese and English primroses, freesia, oxalis, fuchsia, mahernia, euphorbia, helio
  14 KB (2,362 words) - 18:40, 12 January 2010
• Hedge
  Thea bohea (Chinese tea plant). Broad-leaved evergreen. Low-growing. Blooms in winter. Useful near Thuya orientalis (Chinese arbor-vitae; Biota). Coniferous evergreen with many forms. Useful over near
  16 KB (2,647 words) - 18:26, 12 January 2010
• Cut-flower
  ...lia, Calla aethiopica, Lilium candidum, Deutzia gracilis, and Double White Chinese primrose. ...The flower- buying public, however, wanted something larger than the small tea varieties then grown. Every new variety from Europe that had any promise wa
  35 KB (5,833 words) - 00:22, 18 August 2009
• Holly
  ...and 7. conocarpa, yield a kind of tea known as Yerba de Mate, or Paraguay tea, which is much used in South America. The hollies grow best in rich, well-d Three species are used as stimulants and tea subsitutes- Ilex guayusa, Ilex paraguariensis and Ilex vomitoria.
  25 KB (3,633 words) - 21:55, 28 May 2010
• Quince
  ...in the genus ''Cydonia'' are now treated in separate genera. These are the Chinese Quince ''[[Pseudocydonia|Pseudocydonia sinensis]]'', a native of China, and ...ade from the fruit (gamm ta' l-isfargel). According to local tradition, a tea-spoon of the jam dissolved in a cup of boiling water relieves intestinal di
  20 KB (3,244 words) - 11:15, 12 December 2009
• Willow
  ''[[Salix matsudana]]'' - [[Chinese Willow]]<br/> ''[[Salix phylicifolia]]'' - [[Tea-leaved Willow]]<br/>
  19 KB (2,979 words) - 18:55, 7 May 2010
• Viburnum
  ...lus, V. tomentosum, and V. macrocephalum, the common, the Japanese and the Chinese snowballs; all these are very showy. One of the most charming in bloom is V *''[[Viburnum setigerum]]'' - Tea Viburnum
  23 KB (3,461 words) - 16:38, 28 October 2009
• Rose
  |image_caption=''Bridal Pink'', hybrid tea rose, Morwell Rose Garden ...Parsons' Pink China', 1793; 'Hume's Blush China', 1809; and 'Parks' Yellow Tea Scented China', 1824) were brought to [[Europe]] in the late [[18th Century
  188 KB (30,178 words) - 23:37, 5 August 2021
• List of psychoactive plants
  and some other hollies are used as tea substitute stimulants! | Used by Chinese residents of Mexico during the early 20th century as a legal substitute for
  50 KB (6,965 words) - 16:24, 1 June 2010
• Botany
  ...Popular [[stimulant]]s like [[coffee]], [[chocolate]], [[tobacco]], and [[tea]] also come from plants. Most [[alcoholic beverage]]s come from [[fermentat ...rposes spans back to at least the [[Warring States]] (481 BC-221 BC). Many Chinese writers over the centuries contributed to the written knowledge of herbal p
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