GÒNG JÚHUĀ TRIBUTE CHRYSANTHEMUM TEA 贡菊花茶
2025 Harvest · Certified Organic · No-Spray · Estate Grown Sebastopol, California, USA
0.5oz · $12 · Approximately 10–14 servings

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Gòng Júhuā — 贡菊 — means Tribute Chrysanthemum. The name is not decorative. This variety was historically so prized that it was cultivated specifically to be offered as tribute to the Imperial Court of China. The emperors drank this tea. We grow it in Sebastopol.

Originating from Huizhou in Anhui Province — the same region that gave the world Huizhou ink and lacquerware — Gòng Júhuā is celebrated for its delicate white petals, its refined floral fragrance, and its clear pale gold brew. Where our Bó Júhuā is the most medicinally potent of the three classical varieties, Gòng Júhuā is the most elegant — the variety prized by aesthetes, poets, and the Imperial Court for the beauty of the cup as much as the flavor within it.

Our certified organic, no-spray Gòng Júhuā is harvested four times per week at peak bloom — November through December each year. This later harvest than our Bó Júhuā means the two varieties come from different moments in our farm's autumn calendar — Bó Júhuā arriving first in September, Gòng Júhuā completing the season in December. Together they offer a complete chrysanthemum experience across the harvest months.

After harvest the flowers are dried carefully and packaged by hand in small batches into kraft bags.

The flavor:

Clean, delicate, and naturally sweet. Gòng Júhuā brews pale gold and almost luminous — the cup is as beautiful to look at as it is to drink. The floral character is lighter and more subtle than Bó Júhuā, with a refined sweetness that needs nothing added. The flowers open elegantly in the cup.

Traditional Chinese Medicine uses 贡菊花:

Gòng Júhuā shares the therapeutic properties of the chrysanthemum family — classified as a herb that releases the exterior and clears heat:

• Blood pressure and cardiovascular health — dilates blood vessels, supports arterial flexibility, used in treating hypertension and heart pain

• Liver health — clears liver heat and wind

• Eye health — red, dry, swollen or tired eyes; blurry vision

• Headache and migraine — especially heat-related or associated with rising liver yang

• Cold and flu, fever and heatstroke — releases exterior heat

• Dizziness and tinnitus — calms rising yang

Caffeine-free. Can be drunk throughout the day, morning and evening.

How to brew:

• Hot: 3–4 grams of flowers — approximately one rounded tablespoon — per 6–8 ounces of water just under boiling (175–185°F). Steep 3–5 minutes. The pale gold color is the signal that the cup is ready. Re-steep 2–3 times.

• Cold brew: In cold filtered water overnight in the refrigerator. Exceptionally delicate and beautiful served over ice.

• Gong Fu style: Use a glass gaiwan to fully appreciate the visual experience of the flowers opening. This is the tea that rewards being watched.

• With rock sugar: 冰糖 Chinese rock sugar is the traditional complement — a small piece dissolves slowly, adding sweetness without interrupting the delicate floral character.

A note on gifting:

Gòng Júhuā is our most gifted product. The name — Tribute Tea — carries its own meaning. A tea historically offered to emperors makes a quietly significant gift. Paired with our Bó Júhuā in a double chrysanthemum set, it arrives with a story worth telling.

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Certified Organic · No-Spray · Non-GMO · No-Till · Regenerative Agriculture
Estate Grown Sebastopol, California USA · Radical Family Farms
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