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1. 01 The process · 14 Jul 2026 Not Every Plant Cut Into a Rooibos Harvest Is Rooibos A Cape weed common across rooibos country looks enough like the crop to be missed at harvest, and carries a compound the tea plant does not make on its own. Here is what South African chemists traced it to, and what independent testing has actually found.
2. 02 The trade The trade · 16 Jun 2026 Who Gets to Call It Rooibos? The Fight for a Plant’s Name A Texan company spent four years demanding money from anyone who used the word "rooibos" to sell tea, until a US court struck its trademark down. Here is how South Africa lost the name, won it back, and built three separate legal shields so it could never happen again.