Ilex paraguariensis SEO and richly scented in bloom

and richly scented in bloom

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

Little studied and seldom grown

and collector's plantings

Like all sweet osmanthus

Ilex paraguariensis SEO and richly scented in bloomIlex 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