Yaupon Tea

This afternoon I made a cup of yaupon tea from the leaves of one of the shrubs that’s growing in my backyard.  As I write this I think that the caffeine buzz has begun to hit me.  Yaupon holly, a relative of Yerba Mate, is the only native North American plant that contains caffeine. Yaupon has the unfortunate scientific name of Ilex vomitoria.  According to Charles Hudson, in his introduction to the book Black Drink: A Native American Tea, the scientific name...

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