eli5: what makes tea, tea? like what’s different than me plucking leaves off a random tree or finding dry ones off the ground and essentially making flavoured water?

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eli5: what makes tea, tea? like what’s different than me plucking leaves off a random tree or finding dry ones off the ground and essentially making flavoured water?

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Real tea comes from the leaves of the tea plant (it’s seriously referred to as the tea plant). If you put random leaves and whatever else in hot water it would be ‘herbal tea’.