Ilex × meserveae
Meserve Holly

 Plant Type:
 Growth Forms:
 Hardiness:
 Deciduous / Evergreen:
 Flower Notes:
White (Spring; small; dioecious flowers; not ornamentally important)
 Foliage Notes:
Green (Lustrous dark green evergreen foliage)
 Fruit Notes:
Red (Dioecious; beautiful red fruits on female plants in the fall)
 Ultimate Height:
6 feet
 Ultimate Spread:
6 feet
 Soil Notes:
Prefers moist, acidic, well-drained soils
 Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves (1-2.5" long and 0.75-1.25" wide) are alternate, simple, evergreen, leathery, spiny (4-8 spines per margin), lustrous dark green above with slightly impressed veins above. Stems are purplish.

Additional Information

This species, like other hollies, is dioecious, so plant females for fruit and an occasional male for pollination. Winter dessication injury to leaves occurs in exposed sites.

1 Ilex × meserveae found

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Number Accession ID Location
12012_01323*BSMTH

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