Brazilian tea

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Noun

Brazilian tea (countable and uncountable, plural Brazilian teas)

  1. The dried leaves of plants, used to make infusions, especially, of species
    1. Lippia pseudo-thea (syn. Lantana pseudo-thea), native to Brazil, used as a substitute for tea.
      • 1907, Daniel Coit Gilman, ‎Harry Thurston Peck, ‎Frank Moore Colby, editors, The New International Encyclopædia, volume 11, page 767:
        Lantana pseudothea, or Lippia pseudothea, is used in Brazil as a substitute for tea.
      • 2013, Carole J. Skelly, Dictionary of Herbs, Spices, Seasonings, and Natural Flavorings:
    2. Stachytarpheta mutabilis and Stachytarpheta jamaicensis, used for adulterating tea, and also, in Austria, for preparing a beverage.
      • 1998, Louis Lewin, Phantastica: A Classic Survey on the Use and Abuse of Mind-Altering Plants:
        The various peoples of the world prefer different caffeine beverages, but coffee and tea alone are really competitors. The number of plants used as substitutes for genuine tea is extremely large. I am aware of some two hundred, among them the following: […] stachytarpheta (Brazilian tea), […] .
      • 1862, Peter Lund Simmonds, Waste Products and Undeveloped Substances: Or, Hints for Enterprise in Neglected Fields, page 26:
        The leaves of Verbascum Phoenicium, according to Pallas, are used in Siberia as a substitute for tea; and the dried leaves of Bouchea pseudo-gervao, in Brazil, in the same way as Stachytarpheta Jamaicensis, a small shrub, growing in South America. The leaves of S. mutabilis are sold in Austria under the name of Brazilian tea.
      • 1882, John Smith, A Dictionary of Popular Names of the Plants which Furnish the Natural and Acquired Wants of Man, in All Matters of Domestic and General Economy, page 407:
        Brazilian (Stachtarpha[sic] jamaicensis), a tall, single-stemmed biennial, with spikes of blue flowers, of the Verbena family (Verbenaceae), native of the West Indies and many parts of tropical America. In Brazil it is held in high repute for its medicinal virtues, and is said to be imported into Austria as Brazilian Tea.
  2. mate, made from leaves of plants of species Ilex paraguariensis.

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