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 crenata
'Sky Pencil'
Sky Pencil Japanese Holly
Description
Ilex crenata 'Sky Pencil' is a densely branched evergreen shrub that has a tall columnar growth habit and can get 6-10' tall and only 2-3' wide at maturity.
Ilex crenata
( Miss Muffet Holly )
This holly resembles boxwood, but its growth habit is lower and more spreading. Leaves are dark green, glossy, small, ovate to elliptic, with slightly scalloped edges.
Ilex crenata 'Dwarf Pagoda' Aquifoliaceae
Dwarf Pagoda Japanese Holly I-leks kre-NAH-ta ...
USDA Plants Database - Horticulture
Ilex crenata is planted in the highlighted USDA hardiness zones to the left and is not known to widely escape cultivaton.
#1122 Ilex crenata
Common Names: Japanese holly,box-leaved holly,boxleaf holly
Family: Aquifoliaceae (holly Family)
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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.
Ilex crenata 'Sky Pencil'
COMMON: Japanese Holly 'Sky Pencil'
LEAVES: Evergreen, green, 1/2 to 1" long, width=1/2
SIZE: 4 to 8' tall, 1 to 3' wide
HARDINESS: Zone 5 to 7
HABIT: Dense, upright columnar shrub.
Ilex crenata
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Hardiness Zones:
1 ...
Ilex crenata, Lavandula angustifolia cultivars
Lonicera nitida
Osmanthus delavayi ...
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.
Dwarf Japanese Holly (Ilex crenata 'Compacta')
Convexa Holly (Ilex crenata 'Convexa)
Possumhaw (Ilex decidua)
Inkberry (Ilex glabra)
Blue Holly (Ilex x meserveae)
* Amur Privet (Ligustrum amurense)
* Japanese Privet (Ligustrum japonicum) ...
Box Leaved Holly (Ilex crenata)
Boxelder (Acer negundo)
Boxleaf Euonymus (Euonymus japonica 'Microphylla')
Boxwood (Buxus microphylla 'Wintergreen')
Boxwood (Buxus microphylla 'Green Mountain')
Boxwood (Buxus 'Vardar Valley') ...
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.
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 crenata) ...
The Japanese hollies (Ilex crenata): The Japanese hollies are evergreen shrubs with relatively small, spineless leaves and black fruit. They are usually 3 to 10 feet high, with a similar spread and look more like a boxwood than a holly.
opposite leaves distinguish it from Ilex crenata which has alternate leaves
small elliptical or rounded leaves with notches in the apex
distinctly square green stems
dense growth, low habit, evergreen
yellowish green leaf color in winter ...
SOURCES
KEY: Euonymus fortunei 'Emerald 'n Gold': 1, Ilex crenata 'Golden Gem': 2, Juniperus horizontalis 'Mother Lode': 3, J. x pfitz-eriana 'Gold Coast': 4, J. x p. 'Old Gold': 5, Thuja occidentalis 'Rheingold': 6.
Art's Nursery Ltd.: 2, 5.
By far the best of all known Hollies is our native Holly, but there are Japanese and American kinds worth growing, such as Ilex crenata and the fine I. latifolia, which requires our most temperate districts to thrive.
Male-Flowering Hollies ...
Ilex verticillata, the winterberry, does well in poorly-drained, wet and acidic soils; hardy in zones 3-9. Ilex crenata, or Japanese holly, is very useful as a bonsai species, indoors and out, as it is very shade-tolerant; zone 6-9 ...
Japanese holly; box-leaved holly Ilex crenata
Japanese honeysuckle Lonicera japonica
Japanese hop Humulus japonicus
Japanese knotweed; Mexican bamboo Polygonum cuspidatum
Japanese maple Acer palmatum ...
 See also: Ilex, Holly, Green, Evergreen, May
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