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In China, the most luxurious tea is grown from 6 very trees named Da Hong Pao[0]. > Da Hong Pao can sell for up to US$1,025,000 per kilogram And those 6 trees
by namelosw 8y ago
In China, the most luxurious tea is grown from 6 very trees named Da Hong Pao[0].
> Da Hong Pao can sell for up to US$1,025,000 per kilogram
And those 6 trees were bought insurance by the local government for 100 million RMB (~=15 million USD).
The name of Da Hong Pao means the emperor's red robe. In the most productive year, those trees only grow hundreds of o grams of tea.
There's also an interesting section in the Chinese version Wikipedia:
When Nixon visited China in the 1970s, Mao gave him 200g Da Hong Pao as present. Actually, that's half of the annual production.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Hong_Pao https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Hong_Pao