75+ Yaupon Tea Tree

Instructions use fresh yaupon leaves and clean them well. Yaupon holly a relative of yerba mate is the only native north american plant that contains caffeine.

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Yaupon tea tree!!!

Height 3 30 feet 1 to 10 meters exposure full or part sun soil no restrictions. Nothing touches this yaupon but sunshine and rainwater. Add honey or natural sweetener to enhance the taste. Our yaupon is wild craft organic and is sustainably harvested in the pristine forests on the florida east coast.

Yaupon in fact translates from native languages as simply the tree they used yaupon frequently as a part of pre battle rituals to give them energy making a tea known as black drink and consuming it in large quantities. Full sun to partial shade. In modern times the yaupon receives at least a little attention but not for its tea producing qualities. A native american tea the scientific name derives from yaupon s.

Native americans used it to brew battle tea as a stimulant before setting on the warpath. Youpon holly yaupon cassina. According to charles hudson in his introduction to the book black drink. The word yaupon was derived from its catawban name yopún which is a diminutive form of the word yop meaning tree.

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