can golden flowers infect other tea?

I can’t really say but I think I would keep them apart. Go;den flowers are cultivated for the tea. I think it would be similar to how shou is made. I am just thinking keeping them apart as we do sheng and shou.

I used to drink Fuzhuan tea once in a while until I found out from a good source that it may contain gluten and they don’t tell you if the golden flowers were inoculated with wheat flour, barley flour or rice flour. Found out about this in a book by Joseph Wesley, forget the name of the book.

I have absolutely no idea. But I recently ran across an interesting reference on what’s growing on Fu tea throughout the different processing stages, so I’ll mention that (but of course the answer doesn’t come up there): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-07098-8.

Thanks :) I don’t really think of it as me taking a scientific approach to tea, I just read around about subjects. To me science is what those researchers are doing, so there is a linkage.

I’m an engineer but not a scientist, and it seems really strange to me when people say “I like science.” That would be like someone claiming to like literature, when really almost everyone would instead like reading certain kinds of books, or maybe many kinds, but liking the abstract subject of literature instead typically wouldn’t be meaningful.

You’d better separate them. It is not wise to put different tea together.

Obviously, you should experiment and find out. Or at least that is what I would be inclinded to do. Take 50g or so of some golden flower tea throw it together with some other heicha/ripe/whatever that isn’t too precious to you, and see what happens.

I was thinking that same thing; I have a little of a sample size of Fu brick with yellow flowers on hand and bought a shou cake not too long ago, so it would be easy to throw both in a sealed bag or isolated area and see what comes of it. Even if both ended up not quite as good as a result committing 20 grams of tea to the experiment wouldn’t be a risk. Storing that experiment close to the rest of my tea might be a risk, although I’d imagine inside a sealed package opened once in awhile to provide air and moisture input the tea would be safe enough, but it’s probably just as well not to verify that.

Interesting, why not have a try?
PS. black tea may cover it’s flavor, so you can give up black tea.