Lethariella cladonioides tea Red Snow Tea Wild Tibetan

LATIN NAME: Lethariella cladonioides

COMMON NAME: Red Snow Tea

The red snow tea is the pale, branching lichen of the high plateau, and the thin, straw-coloured strands turn the tea a fine, deep red. The slow-growing, fruticose lichen forms the dense, low cushions of the thin, branching, pale grey-green to straw-coloured strands on the rocks and the ground of the high, cold plateau, and the strands have a very long record in the old practice of the high country as the red snow tea. The lichen is a fine, curious presence of the study border and the rock garden. It is a lichen of the open, sunny, very well-drained, cool ground.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The red snow tea is a slow, curious subject of the plant science, and the branching strands keep showing up in the work on the lichen group. The way the lichen grows on the bare rock and the cold ground has been examined closely, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the alpine lichens, the symbiotic fungi and the members of the fruticose lichen group. The dense, low cushions and the slow habit have also made it a fine study organism, and the red snow tea is a regular subject of the work on the slow lichens of the high world.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

The red snow tea is a fine, curious lichen of the high plateau and the rock garden. The thin, branching strands steep into the fine, deep-red tea of the old practice of the high country, and the dense, low cushions grow on the bare rock and the cold ground where the higher plants struggle. The lichen grows slowly, so the wild stands are best left to the careful hand of the traditional pickers and the conservation work, and it is one of the fine curiosities of the alpine bed and the study collection. It has been written about in the botanical and the cultural papers for the red tea and the slow, hardy ways, and it is a fine, curious lichen of the open, sunny, very well-drained, cool garden.

The red snow tea is one of the slow lichens of the high plateau, and the strands steep into the fine, deep-red tea of the old practice. The wild stands are best left to the traditional pickers and the conservation work.

To grow the red snow tea from seed, sow the tiny seeds and the powdery soredia across the surface of a pot of damp, sterile bark, keep the pot in a cool, bright spot and mist gently. The lichen grows on very slowly, so with the patience, the cool air and the clean, damp bark, the pale strands will spread in their own time.

Description

Name: Wild Tibetan Lethariella cladonioides/Red snow tea

Origin: Tibet, China

Source: Thamnolia vermicularis (Ach.) Asahina

Weight: 500 grams

Shelf life: 12 months

Dosage: 15 to 25g, decoct to take juice or drink as tea.

Features
Red snow tea, is also known, gold tea. Belong to Lichenes category, it can detoxify, soothe the nerves and so on. This Red Snow Tea is not tea, growing on dry tree trunks of larch and fir, on 4000m latitude high mountains of Tibet, Qinghai, Yunnan plateau. It’s 100% natural wild, rare and precious.

After brewing, the tea has bright red color, like red wine, unfolding corl shaped leaf, pure taste, slight frangrant. It’s beeen used inTibetan medicine for a few hundred years.

Function: Snow Tea is rich in trace elements needed by human body, which can lower blood lipid, cholesterol,and produce more body fluid to stop thirst; It has function of clearing heat, anti-inflammatory, nourishing Yin and moistening the lungs; Snow tea also refreshs the mind, wakes a patient from unconsciousness, softens the blood vessel, enriches blood and nourish heart. It works significantly on hypertension, coronary heart disease, obesity, nervous breakdown and feeble body.

Storage: keep in a shady, cool and dry place, without reach of children.

Brewing: not suitable to take with other teas.Method: brew 1 to 3 grams each time, with boiled water, like tea brewing.