Tagged: plant breeders rights PicturesList 01 The plant · 6 Dec 2025 Rooibos Waited Ninety Years for a Second Variety Nearly every rooibos field alive today still runs on one man's 1930s selection. Only in the last few years has anyone seriously tried to breed a second one, and the person doing it is the same botanist who spent the 1990s taming rooibos's sister crop, honeybush. Nothing filed under this topic yet.