🍂 Grades & leaf
Flowery Orange Pekoe
Flowery Orange Pekoe — large leaf that includes bud (tip).
FOP stands for Flowery Orange Pekoe: OP-sized leaf that contains bud, or tip. 'Flowery' does not mean the tea smells of flowers; it is a conventional way of saying the grade includes bud.
The more tip there is, the longer the code grows: TGFOP, SFTGFOP and so on. It appears often on Darjeeling and Assam.
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