UBC Department of Asian Studies in Buddhist tradition. The design (courtesy of Asian Studies MA student in Japanese Literature and Visual Culture and graphic designer Julien Butterlin) does indeed gesture in this direction, but the flower depicted is in fact that of Camellia sinensis or Thea sinensis, the tea plant whence many teas are derived. A genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae, Camellia sinensis is used to harvest white tea, green tea, oolong, pu-erh tea and black tea. Tea is the second-most widely consumed beverage in the world after water, and has played and continues to play such a central role in all
Korean tea Korean tea Korean tea is a beverage consisting of boiled water infused with leaves (such as the tea plant "Camellia sinensis"), roots, flowers, fruits, grains, edible mushrooms, or seaweed. According to the "Record of Gaya", cited in the "Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms", the legendary queen Heo Hwang-ok, a princess of Ayodhya, brought the "Camellia sinensis" (var. "assamica") tea plant from India to Korea and planted it on Baegwolsan, a mountain that borders the city of Changwon. In practice, however, Labrador tea and fruit teas, such as magnolia berry tea and goji berry tea, were more widely used in the