Flowering Tea Benefits

Also known as a blooming tea, a flowering tea is a small bundle of dried tea leaves and blossoms that are sewn together with cotton thread and shaped into a ball.
When the ball is placed in hot, boiled water, the bundle then expands and unfurls in a process that emulates a blooming flower.


Flowering teas are typically produced in tea gardens in the Yunnan province in southwestern China. White, green and black tea leaves are often combined with such fragrant flowers as chrysanthemum, jasmine, lily, osmanthus, lavender and hibiscus.


Each of the flowering teas has a unique taste. Chrysanthemum flowering teas tend to have a refreshing, slightly sweet taste; jasmine flowering teas have that freshly distinct floral tang; and amaranth flowering teas possess a certain sweet, mellow and wild floral flavor.
These flavors are also influenced by the accompanying white, green and black tea varieties.


The combining and shaping process is done while the leaves are still moist.
The resultant flowering tea ball undergoes the usual drying, oxidation and firing process which closes the process and provides the finished product.


A flowering tea is enjoyed by both the taste buds and the visual senses.
The dried ball of the flowering tea is ideally placed in a clear glass teapot.
Pour a lightly-boiling water over the tea and witness the tea leaves unfurl and the tea flower open. Allow to steep 2-3 minutes, or to desired strength.
The Flowering Tea may be re-steeped twice or thrice.

The benefits of flowering teas are derived from the healing properties of the individual blossoms used, together with those of the accompanying green, black and white tea leaves.

     Flowering teas with chrysanthemum may help calm the nerves, lower blood pressure, detoxify the      blood, clear congestion and cool the body.

     Flowering teas with jasmine may help in refreshing the senses.

     Flowering teas with lavender may help ease nervous tension and depression.

     Flowering teas with amaranth may have calming and refreshing properties.

     Flowering teas also gain some of the antioxidant properties found in the green, white and black tea      leaves that are combined with the blossoms.