Robert Fortune in Podcasts
personRobert Fortune was a British plant hunter and spy who smuggled tea plants from China to India to establish tea plantations under British control.
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No One Saw It Coming
The houseplant that changed the British Empire
is tea and so in the 1840s the british really wanted to have their own tea plantations they sent a chap by the name of robert fortune who went to china to understand the tea industry and also to acquire tea plants to then be taken back to india where where the british had imperial control and so then they could have their own plantations and control the supply from there