Ilex cassine, the aboriginal North American tea

Edwin Moses Hale

America grew its own tea and forgot to drink it. Edwin Hale's study of Ilex cassine, the aboriginal North American tea, covers the botany, the chemistry, the etymology of dahoon, cassine, and youpon, and the plant's long native history. A caffeinated native shrub, scientifically vindicated at last. Meet the tea that was here all along.