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Ilex Vomitoria Ait. (Yaupon): A Native North American Source of a Caffeinated and Antioxidant-Rich Tea

open access: yesEconomic Botany, 2009
Ilex VomitoriaAit. (Yaupon): A Native North American Source of a Caffeinated and Antioxidant-Rich Tea. Yaupon holly (Ilex vomitoria Ait.) is a caffeine-containing shrub native to the southeastern United States where its leaves and twigs were traditionally used to prepare a stimulating and healthful beverage by Amerindians and more recent colonists. For
Stephen T Talcott   +2 more
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Diversity of Methylxanthine Content in Ilex cassine L. and Ilex vomitoria Ait.: Assessing Sources of the North American Stimulant Cassina

Economic Botany, 2005
Indigenous people of southeastern North America drank cassina, a stimulant and emetic decoction that the colonial British termed “black drink.” Though most authors cite Ilex vomitoria Ait. as the botanical source of cassina, confusion persists because some researchers identify the source as I. cassine L.
Adam L Edwards, Bradley C Bennett
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Sugar Feeding by Culicoides mississippiensis (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) on the Yaupon Holly, Ilex vomitoria

Journal of Medical Entomology, 1999
Adult Culicoides mississippiensis Hoffman were collected from 5 flowering yaupon holly plants at sunrise, late morning, early afternoon, and sunset from 5 flowering yaupon holly plants during the entire flowering season (16 March-15 April 1995). Individual insects were tested for fructose by using the cold anthrone test.
D L Kline
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Tea Creaming in Nonfermented Teas from Camellia sinensis and Ilex vomitoria

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2012
Tea creaming is the development of a cloudy or hazy appearance in tea and ready-to-drink tea products on cooling and is highly undesirable in the tea beverage industry. Commonly associated with fermented black or oolong teas, the objective of this study was to investigate the physicochemical mechanism of the formation of tea cream in nonfermented green
Youngmok Kim, Stephen T Talcott
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Microsite and rooting depth are more important than water-holding gel for establishment of restoration plantings of Ilex vomitoria on barrier islands in the Gulf of Mexico

Native Plants Journal, 2015
Restoration of woody plants to barrier islands requires development of production and outplanting protocols as well as determination of “safe sites” for reestablishment. Yaupon ( Ilex vomitoria Aiton [Aquifoliaceae]) is a shrub associated with scrub dunes and shallow, interdunal swales of barrier islands along the northern Gulf Coast.
Mack Thetford, Deborah L Miller
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