A typical Low Grown variety, this Flowery Broken Orange Pekoe Fannings-1 grade offers somewhat fewer tips with the leaves than in the FBOPF. You will find in your cup a full-bodied liquor with a distinctive sweet taste. The 6oz (170grams) box o fFBOPF-1 yields about 56 cups at 20¢ per cup.
Note: "Flowery" does not
connote flowers in the tea.
Grading of teas refers strictly to appearance: size and shape; grades do
not refer to taste, smell, or quality (except for Taiwan, which does
grade also by these things, and has many more grades than most other
countries). While
there is no universal standard for grading teas, stemming from long ago
when isolated tea gardens each developed their own grading standards, in
general the term "Flowery" tends to connote a slightly broader leaf,
more open, than a simply OP leaf, and which has a crimped appearance
that reminds one of a crushed flower petal. "Flowery" may also come from
an era when it was believed the "bud" in the expression "two leaves and
a bud", the most common configuration in which tea is plucked, came
from the tea plant's flower, before it was understood that the "bud" is
actually a leaf that has not unfurled yet. And so, "Flowery" may have
started out meaning what is now called "tippy".
