Picture prompt - Tea Tree

Deep in the woods grows a magnificent tree unlike any others which grow here. It is a tree which has lived for thousands of years and legend has it that it is a lucky tree.  It is said that a tea made from its leaves offers the drinker a long life filled with prosperity, success and happiness at every turn for the rest of their days.  That is if the tea does not kill them. 
Only those who seek out this tree with the most honorable of intentions can drink the tea without suffering a most painful death.  Many people have gone searching for this tree and while most return empty handed in defeat a few don’t return at all.  
In order to drink the tea from its leaves you must be many things not the least of which is brave.  Brave enough to face the many dangers hidden in the woods and brave enough and sure enough of your own intentions to drink its tea.  There have been a few people who claim to have found the tree and been unable to bring themselves to drink the tea once it has been brewed.
I have every intention of drinking it.