Help identifying pu'er? Taetea, Menghai, Yunnan.

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Help identifying pu'er? Taetea, Menghai, Yunnan.

Help identifying pu

Hello experts! My mother recently went to visit some friends in Hong Kong, who gifted her this pu'er cake. Tea for her is a builder's with milk and a sweetener, so she gave it to me, knowing that I prefer green and white teas.

Before she sent it to me, I asked her on the phone what kind of tea it was, and she said it was jasmine. "If it's in a cake, is it pu'er?" I asked, but she didn't know what that was.

In any case, I know about some factories mimicking the famous Red Label wrapping, but my Chinese can only take me so far, and I wondered whether anyone might be able to narrow this down for me? Thank you!

https://preview.redd.it/ofdii3w083gd1.jpg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84270b20113c8ef235373c009f64fa9a3b414157

https://preview.redd.it/3xio6ug183gd1.png?width=2993&format=png&auto=webp&s=2d7ad71abcd079fe13c2984893cd9b9c7139c99d

EDIT: I'm having trouble uploading an image of the cake itself, but the label is almost completely covered with compressed leaves in any case.

EDIT2: I finally got a picture of the cake to load!

https://preview.redd.it/18u8kbjlx3gd1.jpg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e30798faa6112d36d504c08c69828806693d6976

UPDATE: I've realised why I was having so much trouble identifying some of the characters - the wrapping is the wrong way around! I've found a matching paper here:

https://www.teax.my/products/details/6045acf36b9f3064f54052aa/aged-raw-puer-tea-%7C-kunming-red-discus-tea-cake-%E6%98%86%E6%98%8E%E7%BA%A2%E5%8D%B0%E9%93%81%E9%A5%BC-year-2000

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