Ilex aquifolium
Common Holly, Variegated Holly, English holly, Holly, Cuilleann, European holly, Ilex aquifolium
Description
Evergreen shrub whose rusticity as well as the ornamental value conferred by its glossy leaves and bright red autumn-winter drupes make it ideal for various uses, either as a single specimen, which can take on the size of a small tree, or to create hedges and plant barriers; also suitable for planters and pots of a size commensurate with its vegetative growth. Consider the place of use as holly leaves often have a spiny toothed margin and the drupes are toxic.
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Magnoliophyta
- Class
- Angiospermae
- Order
- Aquifoliales
- Family
- Aquifoliaceae
- Genus
- Ilex
- Species
- Ilex aquifolium
Synonyms (21)
- Aquifolium croceum
- Aquifolium ferox
- Aquifolium heterophyllum
- Aquifolium ilex
- Aquifolium lanceolatum
- Aquifolium planifolium
- Aquifolium spinosum
- Aquifolium undulatum
- Aquifolium vulgare
- Ilex balearica
- Ilex bromeliifolia
- Ilex chrysocarpa
- Ilex ciliata
- Ilex citriocarpa
- Ilex crassifolia
- Ilex echinata
- Ilex ferox
- Ilex fischeri
- Ilex nigricans
- Ilex platyphylla
- Ilex sempervirens
