Ilex paraguariensis SEO graceful understory tree of eastern

graceful understory tree of eastern and central North America

A rare and characterful native that Woodlanders is proud to keep in cultivation

and richly scented in bloom

and collector's plantings

over glossy dark green leathery leaves in whorls of three

Ilex paraguariensis SEO graceful understory tree of easternIlex paraguariensis is the holly behind mat, the caffeine rich tea poured from a gourd and sipped through a metal straw across Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and southern Brazil. As a plant, yerba mat is a broadleaf evergreen holly, a shrub or small tree with dark, leathery, serrated leaves, closely resembling the native dahoon holly, Ilex cassine, of the southeastern United States, and carrying the same small white flowers and, on female plants, small