Little studied and seldom grown
and other fine-scaled companions
near a path or seating where the starry spots can be read at close range
over glossy dark green leathery leaves in whorls of three
graceful understory tree of eastern and central North America
Ilex paraguariensis SEO Little studied and seldom grownIlex 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