Color-changing "XiaoQingGan" Tea Orange Tea Pet

This traditional Xiaoqinggan (小青柑) tea orange tea pet changes color when water is poured on it - what’s cooler than that???

This tea orange tea pet may not be edible, but it makes up for it with a fantastic color-changing parlor trick. By pouring hot water over the unripe green orange, it suddenly bursts into fully-ripe orange color!

After spending over a year to source fantastic tea oranges and fill them with high-quality tea, I figured the tea pet that went to our subscribers when they received their tea orange samplers should also be orange-themed.

While tea pets are commonly animals, plants are also often used as the inspiration for tea pets, with leaves and lotus flowers being common examples.