Ilex or Hollyhocks are evergreen shrubs to small trees with brilliant, dark green foliage with usually serrated margins and most decorative bright red to purplish-red berries on older plants.
Ilex crenata
Japanese Holly, Box Leaved Holly
Used to decorate many a home in winter, these are perhaps the most popular of all ornamental berry plants. Their showy berries often last for several months and attract birds.
Ilex pedunculosa
Longstalk Holly
Aquifoliaceae
Located in Torrey Life Science building courtyard..
Ilex verticillata (Black alder, Winterberry)
Ilex verticillata 'Afterglow' Photo/Illustration: Michelle Gervais
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Ilex decidua
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Possumhaw
Description
Ilex decidua is native to North America including Texas! This plant can be used as a large shrub or small tree when limbed up. In the wild most as seen as multi-stem shrubs.
Ilex cassine
( Bryanii Holly )
Ilex cassine is seldom seen in the garden, but is significant because of all the wonderful hybrids between it and Ilex opaca, the American holly.
Ilex cornuta. Chinese holly. China, Korea
AQUIFOLIACEAE (Holly family)
Shrub, seen on campus in the low-growing form "Dwarf Burford, the species can reach 10 feet or more in heigth and an equal width, with either a dense or open growth.
Ilex verticillata Aquifoliaceae
Winterberry, Winterberry Holly, Michigan Holly, Christmas Berry, Black Alder I-leks ver-ti-si-LA-ta ...
No range map exists for this species. See a map of the states in which Ilex glabra can be found (opens a new window).
USDAFS Additional Silvics - USDA Plants Database - Horticulture
Ilex glabra is native to North America.
Ilex glabra 'Georgia Wine' is a popular variety that used in landscaping.
Description
Gallberry is a slow growing medium sized evergreen shrub with fine textured foliage.
Japanese Holly (Ilex crenata) is dioecious, meaning it has two sexes, & a she-holly will not produce berries if there is no he-holly in the general vicinity.
Holly Oak, Holm Oak
Scientific Name: Quercus ilex L.
Synonym: Quercus smilax, Quercus sempervirens, Quercus montserratensis, Quercus marcetti
Family: Fagaceae ...
Ilex glabra
COMMON: Inkberry
LEAVES: Evergreen, alternatek, simple, 1 to 2" long, 1/3 to 1/2" wide, dark green
SIZE: 4 to 8' tall
HARDINESS: Zone 4 to 9
HABIT: Upright
GROWTH RATE: Slow
FLOWERS: Not significant ...
ILEX GLABRA - Appalachian Tea
ILEX PARAGUENSIS - Mate
A large shrub from Uraguay. Leaves are dried and brewed as tea, which is drunk in South America. Grows well in warmer areas. INGA EDULIS - Monkey Tamarind, Ice Cream Bean ...
Ilex aquifolium
Holly trees (Ilex aquifolium) can tolerate either sun and shade. Although semi-shade is preferable in midsummer, the more light it has the more dense its foliage will be.
Ilex species
Trees and Shrubs, Bonsai
Sow seed in early spring, after stratification; grow on well-drained, consistently moist, fertile soil.
Ilex vomitoria. Bermuda Holly. Both a tree and a bush. It was introduced to Bermuda from Virginia in the 18th century.
Once it became naturalized it was quite prolific and used to thrive in the central parishes but is now rare.
Quercus Ilex
Quercus Ilex - The best-known of Evergreen Oaks, and the most valuable for Britain.
Ilex aquifolium: common holly, English holly, European holly - Commonly marketed for Christmas decorations, this holly is evergreen, and well-loved for its bright red fruits and glossy, spiny leaves. It can grow to 50 ft. in the wild.
Ilex paraguarensis (St.Hil.)
Synonyms: Paraguay herb, Ilex mate, Houx mate, Gon gouha, Paraguay tea, Mate, Jesuit's Brazil tea, St. Bartholomew's tea
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Ilex vomitoria and I. Dahoon, Apalachin or Cassena and Dahoon holly, have emetic properties. A decoction is used by the North Carolina Indians as Yaupon, or ceremonial black drink, as well as in medicine.
Ilex crenata, Lavandula angustifolia cultivars
Lonicera nitida
Osmanthus delavayi ...
Ilex verticillata : Winterberry - Fruits
Ilex verticillata 'Afterglow' : Afterglow Winterberry - Fruits
Ilex verticillata 'Winter Red' : Winter Red Winterberry - Fruits ...
Ilex - trim in early spring - if required
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Jasminum nudiflorum - Cut back the flowered shoots to within a few cm of the older branch.
Ilex glabra
A mound-shaped, colony-forming shrub, somewhat open with age. Leaves: 2" (5 cm) long, lance-shaped, sparingly toothed, glossy, leathery. Flowers: tiny, white, inconspicuous; bloom February-July. Fruit: tiny, berry-like, purple-black. ...
The Holly (Ilex) genus consists of more than 400 species. Hollies offer a diverse range of plant characteristics. They can be deciduous or evergreen and vary from small (18 inches) to very large (over 50 feet).
Landscape Use ...
Bearberry - Ilex decidua
Bear Corn - Veratrum viride
Bindweed
Blue Bindweed - Solanum dulcamara ...
Holly trees (Ilex) also make great hosts for clematis. The almond-scented starry white flowers of C. flammula are a great sight in late summer growing through I. aquifolium. Its close cousin, C.
N. canadensis. Ilex canadensis. non West. Vaccinium mucronatum.
Known Hazards
None known ...
Winterberry (Ilex verticillata)
Zone 4, 2 m high x 2 m
Deciduous, native holly with scarlet autumn foliage; bright red winter berries.
Ilex crenata
Dense, multi-branched, broadleaved evergreen shrub with lustrous, dark green foliage year round. Medium fine texture with ½ to 1" leaves. Grows best in moist, well drained, slightly acidic soil in sun or part shade.
Acebiño - Ilex canariensis
Acebo - Ilex aquifolium
Acebo - Quercus ilex
Acebo menor - Ruscus aculeatus
Acedera - Rumex acetosa
Acederilla - Oxalis acetosella
Acederilla aleluya - Oxalis corniculata
Aceite de Argán - Argania spinosa ...
English holly Ilex aquifolium
English ivy Hedera helix
English oak Quercus robur
English plantain; lance-leaved plantain Plantago lanceolata
erect hedge-parsley Torilis japonica
Etruscan honeysuckle Lonicera etrusca ...
Speckled Alder (Alnus incana), Leatherleaf (Chamaedaphne calyculata), Pipsisewa (Chimaphila umbellata), Bunchberry (Cornus canadensis), Trailing Arbutus (Epigaea repens), Creeping Snowberry (Gaultheria hispidula), Winterberry Holly (Ilex ...
(mät´, mt´), yerba maté(yr´bä, -b), or Paraguay tea, evergreen tree (Ilex paraguariensis) of the family Aquifoliaceae ( family).
In the Southeast we have Ilex crenata and Ilex cornuta (Japanese and Chinese hollies). Every homeowner thinks they have boxwoods, so these have gained the nickname redneck boxwood.
American Holly (Ilex opaca)
Cranberry Cotoneaster (Cotoneaster apiculatus)
Foster Holly (Ilex x attenuata 'Fosteri')
Nellie Stevens Holly (Ilex x 'Nellie R. Stevens')
* Amur Privet (Ligustrum amurense)
* Japanese Privet (Ligustrum japonicum) ...
Amur Honeysuckle (Lonicera maacki) Autumn Olive (Elaeagnus umbrella) Firethorn (Pyracantha) Holly (Ilex spp.) Dogwood (Cornus florida) Silky Dogwood (Cornus amomum) Redosier Dogwood (Cornus Sumac (Rhus spp.) Stolonifera) Mountain Ash (Sorbus spp.) ...
Some species, such as inkberry (Ilex glabra), are adapted to wet areas. Most hollies prefer slightly acidic soil; however, some species, such as winterberry (I. verticillata), require more acidic soils.
Planting Instructions ...
save time in this laborious chore, but it is even better to eliminate it, where possible, by using edgings that take care of themselves, such as sedums, cerastium, or dwarf phlox, and hedge plants such as barberry, dwarf yews, box-leaved holly (Ilex ...
is the result of a chance interspecific cross between the Chinese holly (Ilex cornuta) and English holly (I. aquifolium). Though the bees were responsible for the pollen dabbing, it was a schoolmarm named Nellie R.
Discovered by Meriwether Lewis in 1806 on the Columbia River, this species was named Berberis Aquifolium in 1814 (Aquifolium is the ancient Latin name of the holly now known botanically as Ilex Aquifolium).
The plant was at first named Ilex myrsinites by Frederick Pursh in 1814 and was renamed Paxistima myrsinites by Constantine Rafinesque in 1838.
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58. Hybrid Holly
(Ilex altaclerensis 'Camelliifolia')
Other Common Names: Camellia Leaf Holly, Highclere Holly
Family: Aquifoliaceae ...
The Holly tree is a perfect garden plant. Ilex is an all round plant that suits any garden, with holly berries in winter and glossy green leaves all year round.
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It flowers in the spring; later it has bright red to orange-red drupes. There are 13 species and varieties of Ilex in Florida (Wunderlin, 2003).
View the herbarium specimen image of the University of Florida Herbarium Digital Imaging Projects.
Even evergreen can be infested resulting is dead cedars (Juniper), hemlock (Tsuga), pine (Pinus) and spruce (Picea). However, ash (Fraxinus), tulip poplar (Lirodendron), locust (Robinia), walnut (Juglans), Dogwood (Cornums), Holly (Ilex), ...
Tall Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia maxima) seeds are highly attractive to goldfinches in the fall. Winterberry (Ilex verticillata) is a crucial shrub for providing a late-winter food source for birds. New Canaan Nature ...
 See also: Green, Holly, Evergreen, May, Orange
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