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Tea (Camellia sinensis) is not an herb, i.e. not "a plant whose stem does not become woody and persistent (as in a tree or shrub)"

• gswdh 5y ago
  * a herb
• OJFord 5y ago
  I don't know where you got that definition, but it's obviously not right. It excludes mint and rosemary leaves, for example.
  • Tomte 5y ago
    It's the usual difference in definitions between botany and gastronomy. See: “berries”, “fruit”.
  • petters 5y ago
    OK, in my native language the translation of "herb" is less used in common language. The definition was from English Wikipedia though