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'''Yerba mate''' or '''yerba-mate''' (Br.) ({{lang-es|yerba mate}}, {{lang-pt|erva-mate}}), '''''Ilex paraguariensis''''', is a [[species]] of [[holly]] (family [[Aquifoliaceae]]) native to subtropical [[South America]] in northeastern [[Argentina]], [[Bolivia]], [[Paraguay]] and southern [[Brazil]].<ref>{{IUCN2006|assessors=World Conservation Monitoring Centre|year=1998|id=32982|title=Ilex paraguariensis|downloaded=9 May 2006}}</ref> It was first scientifically classified by Swiss botanist Moses Bertoni, who settled in Paraguay in 1895. The yerba mate plant is a [[shrub]] or small [[tree]] growing up to 15 [[metre|meters]] tall. The [[leaf|leaves]] are [[evergreen]], 7–11 [[centimetre|cm]] long and 3–5.5 cm wide, with a serrated margin. The [[flower]]s are small, greenish-white, with four petals. The [[fruit]] is a red [[drupe]] 4–6 mm in diameter.<ref>[http://www.ushuaia.pl/yerba/what Yerba mate — what?] at Ushuaia.pl.</ref> {{Inc| Ilex paraguariensis, St. Hil. (I. paraguensis, Don). Shrub or small tree, to 20 ft.: branchlets glabrous or puberulous: lvs. obovate to obovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, narrowed at the base, obtuse or short and obtusely acuminate, crenate-serrate, glabrous or pubescent below, 3-5, rarely to 10 in. long: fls. axillary, fascicled or in stalked cymes: fr. globose or ovoid, 1/5 – ¼ in. across, red or reddish brown. Brazil. }} ==Cultivation== ===Propagation=== ===Pests and diseases=== ==Varieties== ==Gallery== <gallery perrow=5> Image:Yerba Mate.jpg|Yerba mate growing in the wild. Image:Upload.png| photo 1 Image:Upload.png| photo 2 Image:Upload.png| photo 3 </gallery> ==References== <references/> *[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963    ==External links== *{{wplink}} {{stub}} __NOTOC__

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