Author Topic: campomanesia teas: should I be afraid?  (Read 1267 times)

huertasurbanas

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3373
    • Junín, Argentina, zone 9b/9a
    • View Profile
    • huertasurbanas
campomanesia teas: should I be afraid?
« on: October 03, 2014, 08:54:36 AM »
Hello, I'd love to make tea with leaves of chamba / palillo (lineatifolia Campomanesia) because the leaves have an exquisite aroma when crushed (as a mixture of oregano and lemon), but I have some fear, because I never take things that have no information whether they are edible.

Then I searched the internet and at Brazil teas are made with several campomanesias, in fact there are studies about and commercial products, but the teas are being made with other Campomanesia species (xanthocarpa, reitziana and so on).

see:

http://shopnatural.com.br/chaguabiroba.html
http://siaibib01.univali.br/pdf/Osvaldo%20do%20Rosario%20Neto.pdf


So here's my question: Would it be wrong to assume that tea of Campomanesia  lineatifolia should do no harm my health, since there are teas on the market from other Campomanesia species?

I've made guava leaf tea and guabiju and are very good to the taste, I have had no problems.

gunnar429

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3320
  • Nothing like fruit from your own yard!
    • West Park, FL 33023, Zone 10b
    • View Profile
Re: campomanesia teas: should I be afraid?
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2014, 09:38:49 AM »
How do campomanesias compare to jaboticaba in terms of taste?
~Jeff

"Say you just can't live that negative way, if you know what I mean. Make way for the positive day." - Positive Vibration

huertasurbanas

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3373
    • Junín, Argentina, zone 9b/9a
    • View Profile
    • huertasurbanas
Re: campomanesia teas: should I be afraid?
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2014, 10:48:27 AM »
well, I just tried c. guazumifolia: it's pulp is sandy (maybe others campomanesias  do not have sandy pulp) very nice, it was like eating a very good orange (acid and sweet) but with gritty pulp like a sandy apple but much nicer. It is one of the fruits that I liked more and reminds me of the feijoa. It didnt reminds me the jaboticaba I tried, they had very juicy pulp, acid and sweet.

BayAreaMicroClimate

  • Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 171
    • Dublin, California 9b
    • View Profile
Re: campomanesia teas: should I be afraid?
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2022, 04:32:56 PM »
Marcos have you tasted Campomanesia reitziana?

Hello, I'd love to make tea with leaves of chamba / palillo (lineatifolia Campomanesia) because the leaves have an exquisite aroma when crushed (as a mixture of oregano and lemon), but I have some fear, because I never take things that have no information whether they are edible.

Then I searched the internet and at Brazil teas are made with several campomanesias, in fact there are studies about and commercial products, but the teas are being made with other Campomanesia species (xanthocarpa, reitziana and so on).

see:

http://shopnatural.com.br/chaguabiroba.html
http://siaibib01.univali.br/pdf/Osvaldo%20do%20Rosario%20Neto.pdf


So here's my question: Would it be wrong to assume that tea of Campomanesia  lineatifolia should do no harm my health, since there are teas on the market from other Campomanesia species?

I've made guava leaf tea and guabiju and are very good to the taste, I have had no problems.