Ilex paraguariensis SEO A rare and characterful native

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

graceful understory tree of eastern and central North America

near a path or seating where the starry spots can be read at close range

Little studied and seldom grown

Ilex paraguariensis SEO A rare and characterful nativeIlex 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