Yaupon Holly (Ilex vomitoria) offers cheery seasonal beauty with its translucent red berries and small shiny leaves. Its leaves were used for centuries pre-contact by indigenous people to brew a very strong, highly caffeinated ceremonial tea, the famed Black Drink. The Black Drink was sometimes used to induce vomiting.
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