Educational resources on Tea Plant

Tea Plant or Frankenia portulacifolia is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Vulnerable due to D2. IUCN Profile of the Tea Plant

Academic web links for the Tea Plant.

Ethnobotanical Leaflets: The Tea Plant. ... The tea plant (Camellia sinensis) is one of about 80 species of East Asian evergreen shrubs and trees that belong to the tea family, or Theaceae. ...
http://www.siu.edu/~ebl/leaflets/tea.htm id=spl-1

Northwestern California Newspapers - Tea Plant: Tea Plant. Dates of Publication 1884-1885. ... Holdings HSU Library Tea Plant. You may also search the California State Newspaper Project Database for holdings. ...
http://library.humboldt.edu/nwcnews/news/tea_plant.html id=spl-2

Camellias for Texas Gardens: ...plants: Camellia sinensis, Camellia japonica, and Camellia sasanqua. Tea Plant (Camellia sinensis). Of these three, the one that evoked ...
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/extension/newsletters/hortupdate/jan01/art10jan.html id=spl-3

ARTFL Project: Webster Dictionary, 1913: Tea bug (Zoöl.) , an hemipterous insect which injures the tea plant by sucking the juice of the tender leaves. -- Tea caddy , a small box for holding tea. ...
http://machaut.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/WEBSTER.sh?WORD=Tea id=spl-4

Eltsosie - Recipe - Wild Tea: Diné, the People By Suzanne Eltsosie. Wild Tea, Dééh. 1 rolled tea plant. ... Bring water to boil. Add the entire tea plant and boil for 10-15 minutes or longer. ...
http://www.marquette.edu/library/neh/eltsosie/resource/receip5.htm id=spl-5

A Note on Tea: A Note on Tea. The tea plant is called Camellia sinensis in botanical Latin (previously sometimes also Thea sinensis or Camillia thea). ...
http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/chin/hbtea.html id=spl-6

Raj Karim: 2003. Inhibitory Effects of Tea Plant Camellia sinensis Extracts Against Bacteria, Yeast, and Herpes Simplex Virus Type II. Proceedings ...
http://www.d.umn.edu/biology/faculty/Karim_page.htm id=spl-7

BIOTECHNOLOGICAL IMPROVEMENTS OF TEA: Using this protocol, further experiments are underway to transfer the chitinase gene for production of a fungus-resistant tea plant. ...
http://www.isb.vt.edu/articles/aug0403.htm id=spl-8

PLB143 - Evolution of Crop Plants: The Crop of the Day - Tea: Camellia sinensis. The tea plant is an evergreen shrub or small tree that may reach 30 feet if unpruned. It is adapted to sub-tropical areas. ...
http://agronomy.ucdavis.edu/gepts/pb143/CROP/Tea/Tea.htm id=spl-9