Yaupon can be both an annoying garden plant and healthy tea “It’s a very pleasant beverage to drink, and it hits all the right notes as a caffeinated beverage,” one expert says.

Yaupon holly—North America’s only native caffeinated plant—has a long history in Indigenous cultures. As the tea becomes trendy in the U.S., will those roots be forgotten?

Bryon and his brother Kyle became some of the country’s first modern yaupon entrepreneurs upon starting their company in 2012. Until 2023, the business relied entirely on wild yaupon; the plant ...

Rise Yaupon teas are made from North America's only naturally caffeinated plant species, the Yaupon Holly. Yaupon has a rich history of cultural significance among indigenous communities and is ...

Food & Drink Though New to Some Tea Drinkers, Yaupon Is Steeped in History More than a thousand years after Indigenous Texans began brewing yaupon, the tea—and its aggressive holly plant—is ...

Cleveland’s Storehouse Tea is introducing four new blends of yaupon tea in Northeast Ohio. The only caffeine-containing plant on American soil, yaupon is a holly shrub (Ilex vomiteria) that ...

AF: Our crews harvest wild yaupon from our land and our neighbors’ land in Cat Spring. In our part of Texas, yaupon is very prolific and makes up most of the undergrowth of any land left wild ...

NEW SMYRNA BEACH — Yaupon Brothers American Tea Company — a family business started here 13 years ago by Bryon White and his brother Kyle — has expanded by adding a 30-acre growing operation ...