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A community for anything tea (Camellia Sinensis) related. Rooibos, Yerba Mate and alike welcome!

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Yaupon Holly (lemmy.zip)

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Something tea-adjacent I've been drinking lately, a caffeinated holly and the only caffeinated plant native to North America. It's related to the Mate and Guayusa hollies from South America.

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[–] Slatlun@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's really cool. Have you thought about tea making processes to deepen the flavor? Like bruising and oxidizing before roasting. I tried it with some random leaves (fireweed, alder, and raspberry) this year and the flavor changed a ton. It made each of them them complex enough to drink pleasantly on their own.