Rooibos grows only in the remote Cederberg Mountains several hours north of Cape Town – all attempts to grow it beyond this hot and rugged area have failed. While a relatively recent addition to the vast world of tea drinking, it is said that these Cape ‘bush teas’ were first documented in 1772 by the acclaimed Swedish botanist Carl Thunberg. He noted that "the country people made tea" from a plant related to wild rooibos and honeybush, which also grows in the botanically rich south-western Cape.