Weeping Yaupon 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.
The Dwarf Yaupon Holly is a small evergreen shrub that has a refine and attractive look, it can get 5 feet in height and 8-10 feet in width. Dwarf Yaupon can be very formal when sheared, or a small mound if not.
Yaupon Holly (Ilex vomitoria): Yaupon holly is native from Long Island, New York to central Florida and west to Texas. In South Carolina it grows into a small evergreen tree, 3 to 15 feet tall and 3 to 10 feet wide.
Yaupon holly is an upright, irregularly branched, evergreen shrub or small tree with ovate, toothed, shiny dark-green leaves and gray branches. Profuse, transluscent scarlet fruit persists through the winter.
The yaupon holly berries provides an important source of food for birds and other wildlife in late winter when there's not a lot of other things to eat.
Bordeaux" Dwarf Yaupon Holly [English]: Ilex vomitoria 'Condeaux'
Border Angel Daylily [English]: Hemerocallis 'Border Angel'
Border Auricula [English]: Primula x pubescens 'Freedom'
Border Auricula [English]: Primula x pubescens ...
Ilex vomitoria: Yaupon holly - This upright, spreading small evergreen tree or large shrub, capable of reaching 15 to 25 feet in height with a similar spread, has small, grey-green, oval shaped leathery leaves densely arranged along smooth, stiff, ...
In the American southeast & southwest, yaupon holly (I. vomitoria) was used in mystic cultic practices, overimbibed to induce vomiting & hallucination as a purification ritual.
From a distance, Japanese holly and dwarf yaupon holly appear almost identical. Only subtle differences can separate these two distinct species.
Ilex longipes - Georgia Holly
Ilex montana - Mountain Winterberry
Ilex myrtifolia - Myrtle-leaved Holly
Ilex opaca - American Holly
Ilex verticellata - Common Winterberry
Ilex vomitoria - Yaupon; Yaupon Holly ...
 See also: Holly, Yaupon, Ilex, Green, Evergreen
  
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