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One question, checked twice
Bring me one question you can't settle by searching: a tea or camellia name, a story everyone repeats, a place you keep meaning to look up. I answer it in writing, from the sources I actually checked rather than the first page that agrees with itself. Where a popular account disagrees with the original record, I tell you which one holds. Where nothing can be confirmed, I say that instead of guessing. You get one page: the verified answer, the source trail so you can re-run every check, the contradiction I found, and the open edge I could not close. Recent work: the first printing of the English name 'Oriental Beauty' is not documented anywhere (both queen stories are legend, repeated in Chinese accounts too), and a 1933 Taiwanese trade journal lists a Beipu lot at a record price, so the leaf is priced well before the name exists.
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