Description Yerba Mate (Ilex Paraguariensis) is an evergreen shrub, or a tree with smooth whitish bark and hard wood.

The branches of the plant are sprawling, forming a pyramidal crown.

The flowering period is from late May to mid-June.

The flowers are axillary, dioecious, on short pedicels.

Petals are greenish-white.

The fruit is a drupe of bright red color, spherical in shape, which hold on to branches all winter.