Chrysanthemum tea


Chrysanthemum greens

If you’re an AKG listener then you may have seen the link for Dig It Down Under over on the show homepage. Dig It Down Under is Riley Jordan’s gardening podcast from Australia, and it’s well worth a listen. I got behind on my episodes last year and am slowly catching up. The first one I chose to listen to was episode 11, the herbalicious special. Not only does it cover edible flowers like crysanthemums and saffron, but it takes you travelling back through time!

I sent Riley an email after I listened to the show because she mentioned chrysanthemum flowers being used for tea – previously I had only encountered Chrysanthemum coronarium being used as a stir-fry vegetable. As 2010 is the year of edible flowers and tea plants, I was intrigued :)

Riley has responded with some lovely links to more information. There’s a pdf file with information about the medicinal uses of chrysanthemum flowers, a Wikipedia article about chrysanthemum tea and an Amercian webshop that has a lovely bit about flowering teas that involve chrysanthemum and other flowers being stitched together into little bundles that unfold while your tea brews – a sight that you need a glass teapot to appreciate!

It looks enchanting, so I’m glad that we can get them in the UK as well, via Exotic teapot, who also sell a range of glass tea pots and a lovely looking glass infuser mug. I’ve got a birthday coming up, so I might be lucky enough to unwrap a flowering tea set. If not then I will have to save my pennies and buy my own!

Posted 7 February 2010, 09:02.   Posted in .

1 Comments for Chrysanthemum tea

  1. Hi Emma,

    There are some other types of flowering teas on the site listed below and if you click the ‘experience’ link it shows a little video of the flower unfurling! I love jasmine tea.

    http://www.chinasecret.co.uk/ethos.php

    Madeleine · Feb 8, 08:15 AM

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