Police found the woman's body in a tea plantation and were looking for the knife, which was thrown into some tea bushes, another police officer said in a telephone interview from Badulla, about 130 kilometers ( 80 miles ) east of the capital, Colombo.
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In Lahijan, the historic capital of Iran's tea industry, land that was once a lush vista of tea bushes is now occupied by houses and flats, built by tea factory owners who have moved into the building trade in response to their industry's decline.
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Otherwise known as aphids, narwhal whales and tea bushes, these species are part of the data base that Stafursky is compiling on his World Wide Web site, the World Species List, in what appears to be the world's first comprehensive index of flora, fauna and microbes.
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Wertheins drained the swamp the same year, planted the first tea bush eight years later and saw the plantation's output climb to a record 2, 897 tons of tea worth dlrs 5 million in 1996 _ more than the state-run Mulindi factory, which is three times as large.
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Legend has it that camellias were first mistakenly imported as tea plants when Chinese merchants, intent on protecting their export markets, pulled a fast one, selling European traders the ornamental in place of its sought-after cousin, the tea bush Camellia sinensis, said Lynn Ackerman, managing horticulturalist at the Lyman Estate.
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About 5, 700 people live in Omiya, nearly 200 miles southwest of Tokyo, and most families have worked for dozens of generations in the rice paddies, in the neat rows of tea bushes on the hillsides, or in the cypress, cedar and pine forests on the jutting mountains that surround Omiya on the Kii Peninsula.
