noun

• A holly of the south-eastern US with bitter leaves containing caffeine, traditionally dried and brewed as a drink by some North American Indian peoples.

  Ilex vomitoria, family Aquifoliaceae

  ‘Small trees resistant to cotton root rot include Jerusalem thorn, yaupon and wild olive.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Native plants, like wax myrtle varieties of yaupon hollies to name a few, are popular plants for southern gardens.’
  • ‘But even ‘evergreen’ yaupons drop old leaves to make way for new.’
  • ‘Shrubs: chittamwood (a bumelia also called gum-elastic), yaupon, spatulate-leaved hawthorn.’
  • ‘Southerners could, for example, plant a mass of vigorous full-sized yaupon hollies next to the back door, and a cluster of dwarf yaupons (Ilex vomitoria ‘Nana’) at the yard's far edge.’