removal of dubious material i've removed the following information because it is factually incorrect the titles listed as grades are hyperbolic names found primarily in open tea markets often followed by a to make it seem even higher quality they don't actually reflect tea quality at all although they are the butt of many jokes as was reported although i'm fairly certain of this my visit to the page was a drive by to clarify what orange pekoe refers to to my husband also inaccurate and uncited but this bothered me more for some reason i don't have the time right now to pull out sources if i'm wrong sorry to have been a bother but if i'm right the labeling of tea is ripe for an interesting subsection on how not to get ripped off orange pekoe is often referred to as op the grading scheme contains several other categories considered to be of higher quality than op the grades for whole leaf orthodox black tea in ascending order are op orange pekoe fop flowery orange pekoe gfop golden flowery orange pekoe tgfop tippy golden flowery orange pekoe ftgfop fine tippy golden flowery orange pekoe sftgfop super fine tippy golden flowery orange pekoe