Camellias go back a long way

Evening News - Scotland | March 31, 2007| | Copyright

IT'S a shrub which can claim a noble - and indeed imperial - heritage. According to legend, the camellia, currently flowering in all its pink and red glory in gardens across the Capital, first came to man's attention way back in 2737BC.

The story goes that the Chinese Emperor Shen Nung was boiling water to drink when some leaves from a nearby plant fell into his pot.

For some unrecorded reason - perhaps he couldn't be bothered to boil some more water - he drank the leaf-infused liquid. Luckily, rather than killing him off, he found it tasted rather nice - and so the beverage we know as tea ...

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