Ilex vomitoria
| Habit | tree
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| Height: | ⇕ | 5 m"m" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 5. to 9 m"m" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 9. |
| Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial |
| Origin: | ✈ | SE North America |
| Features: | ✓ | evergreen |
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Ilex vomitoria (Yaupon Holly, Yaupon, or Cassina; the latter shared with Ilex cassine), is a species of holly native to southeastern North America, occurring in United States from Maryland south to Florida and west to Oklahoma (only in the extreme southeast)[1] and Texas, and in Mexico in Chiapas.[2]
It is an evergreen shrub or small tree reaching 5-9 m tall, with smooth, light gray bark and slender, hairy shoots. The leaves are alternate, ovate to elliptical with a rounded apex and crenate or coarsely serrated margin, 1-4.5 cm long and 1-2 cm broad, glossy dark green above, slightly paler below. The flowers are 5–5.5 mm diameter, with a white four-lobed corolla. The fruit is a small round or red (occasionally yellow) drupe 4-6 mm diameter containing four pits, which are dispersed by birds eating the fruit. The species may be distinguished from the similar Ilex cassine by its smaller leaves with a rounded, not acute apex.[3][4][5][1][6]
Read about Ilex vomitoria in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Ilex vomitoria, Ait. (I. cassine, Walt., not Linn. I. caroliniana, Loes.). Cassena. Yaupon. Shrub, rarely tree, to 25 ft., with spreading branches: lvs. oval or oblong, obtuse, crenate, glabrous, ½ -1, rarely to 2 in. long: fls. clustered on branches of the previous year: fr. scarlet, globose, small. April. Va. to Fla., west to Ark. and Texas.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Oklahoma Biological Survey: Ilex vomitoria
- ↑ Germplasm Resources Information Network: Ilex vomitoria
- ↑ USDA Plant Guide: yaupon Ilex vomitoria (doc file)
- ↑ Florida Department of Environmental Protection: Florida's Hollies
- ↑ Martin, C. O., & Mott, S. P. (1997). Yaupon (Ilex vomitoria): Section 7.5.10,U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wildlife Resources Management Manual. Technical Report EL-97-16, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS. Available online (pdf file)
- ↑ Bioimages: Ilex vomitoria
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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