Yerba Mate, Roasted Organic

The plant can reach forty feet tall. Has gray stems, oval leaves and small green or purplish-red fruit. Erva mate leaves are utilized in cooking. The seedling is very sensitive to the sun, requiring shading until it reaches some maturity. The native plants used to reproduce only by birds of the region who ate the small fruit and defecated its seed already scarified. Nowadays, there are seed-plot producing seedlings of selected varieties, whose planting is done with special techniques in large orchards. In order to make the annual harvest of the branches easier, the tree is severely pruned to keep no more than ten feet tall.