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| + | '''''Ilex integra''''', or '''Mochitree''', is an [[ornamental tree]] of the [[holly]] genus, which is native to parts of [[Asia]], including [[Korea]]; [[Taiwan]]; the mid-southern regions of [[China]]; and [[Honshu]], [[Shikoku]] and [[Kyushu]] in [[Japan]]. Its flower is light-yellow.<ref name=ap>{{ cite book |title=Gardening for the Million |last=Pink |first=A. |year=2004 |publisher=[[Project Gutenberg|Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation]] |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11892}}</ref><ref name=m-h>{{ cite book |title=葉で見わける樹木 |author=Masayuki-Hayashi |year=2004 |language=Japanese |isbn=4-09-208022-0 |url=http://www.ne.jp/asahi/blue/woods/book.html |accessdate=October 6, 2009}}</ref> The species was botanically described in 1784.<ref name=grin1>{{ cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?19726 |title=''Ilex integra'' information from NPGS/GRIN |author=[[Germplasm Resources Information Network|GRIN]] |work=Taxonomy for Plants |publisher=[[United States Department of Agriculture|USDA]], [[Agricultural Research Service|ARS]], National Genetic Resources Program |date=July 17, 2007 |location=National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, [[Beltsville, Maryland]] |accessdate=October 6, 2009}}</ref> |
− | Ilex integra, Thunb. (Othera japonica, Thunb. Ilex othera, Spreng.). Evergreen shrub or tree, to 40 ft., glabrous: lvs. slender-petioled. oval to elliptic-oblong or oblong-obovate, rarely oblanceolate, narrowed at the base, at the apex contracted into a short obtuse point, entire, very rarely with a few teeth, indistinctly veined, 2-3 ½ in. long; petiole 1/3 - ¾ in. long: fls. on stalks 1/5 – 1/3 in. long, in axillary fascicles on branches of the previous year: fr. red, globose or ovoid, 1/3 – ½ in. long. Feb.-April; fr. in Aug.-Oct. Japan. S.I.F. 1:60. —Variable in the size and shape of the Ivs. and in the length of the pedicels; one of the forms is cult, in the S. as Othera japonica. | + | Ilex integra, Thunb. (Othera japonica, Thunb. Ilex othera, Spreng.). Evergreen shrub or tree, to 40 ft., glabrous: lvs. slender-petioled. oval to elliptic-oblong or oblong-obovate, rarely oblanceolate, narrowed at the base, at the apex contracted into a short obtuse point, entire, very rarely with a few teeth, indistinctly veined, 2-3 ½ in. long; petiole 1/3 - ¾ in. long: fls. on stalks 1/5 – 1/3 in. long, in axillary fascicles on branches of the previous year: fr. red, globose or ovoid, 1/3 – ½ in. long. Feb.-April; fr. in Aug.-Oct. Japan.—Variable in the size and shape of the Ivs. and in the length of the pedicels; one of the forms is cult, in the S. as Othera japonica. |
| *[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963 | | *[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963 |
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