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Cassina
With its rich, dark color, caffeinated kick, and roasted aroma, cassina,
beverage made from the leaves of a type of holly tree, could easily be
mistaken for black tea. Cassina, however, does not come from China,
where tea originated, but from the southern coastal areas of North
America. Native Americans began drying and roasting cassina leaves over
a thousand years ago, and trade in the "black drink," as cassina was
known, stretched across the continent before the arrival of European
colonizers. The colonizers, too, adopted the beverage, drinking cassina
daily in Florida and other southern colonies.
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