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|genus=Ilex
|species=cassine
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|common_name=Dahoon Holly, Cassena
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|origin=N America
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'''''Ilex cassine''''' ('''Dahoon Holly'''; also sometimes known as ''Cassena'', but see also ''[[Ilex vomitoria]]''), is a [[holly]] native to the southeastern coast of [[North America]], in the [[United States]] from [[Virginia]] to southeast [[Texas]], in [[Mexico]] in [[Veracruz]], and in the [[Caribbean]] on the [[Bahamas]], [[Cuba]], and [[Puerto Rico]].<ref name=grin>Germplasm Resources Information Network: [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?19681 ''Ilex cassine'']</ref>
It is a large [[shrub]] or small [[tree]] growing to 10-13 m tall. The [[leaf|leaves]] are [[evergreen]], 6-15 cm long and 2-4 cm broad, glossy dark green, entire or with a few small spines near the apex of the leaf. The [[flower]]s are white, with a four-lobed corolla. The [[fruit]] is a red [[drupe]] 5-6 mm diameter containing four [[seed]]s.<ref name=flh>Florida Department of Environmental Protection: [http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/wetlands/delineation/featuredplants/ilex.htm Florida's Hollies]</ref><ref name=rhs>Huxley, A., ed. (1992). ''New RHS Dictionary of Gardening''. Macmillan ISBN 0-333-47494-5.</ref><ref>[http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=462 Ilex cassine Fact Sheet<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
As with other hollies, it is [[plant sexuality|dioecious]] with separate male and female plants. Only the females have berries, and a male [[pollenizer]] must be within range for [[bee]]s to [[pollination|pollinate]] them.
It is grown as an [[ornamental plant]] for the attractive bright red berries set against the glossy green leaves. Its original range was close to the coast, but the range has been extended by planting.
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Ilex cassine, Linn. (I. dahoon, Walt.). Dahoon. Shrub or small tree, to 30 ft.: lvs. obovate to oblong- linear, acute or obtuse and mucronulate, entire or sharply serrate above the middle, usually pubescent beneath when young, 2-3 in. long: fr. globose, small, dull red, rarely yellow, on this year's growth. April, May. N. C. to Fla., west to La. S.S. 1:46. Ilex cassine var. angustifolia, Ait. Lvs. linear-oblong to linear, 2-3 in. long. Ilex cassine var. myrtifolia, Chapm. Lvs. linear-oblong, 1-2 in. long: fr. usually solitary. S.S. 1:45.—Cassine or cassena is the name in the language of the Timucua Indians for an exhilarating beverage prepared from the lvs. of the following plant which had been confused with this species; the name seems to have been borrowed from the Muscogee word assi, leaves, modified by a prefix.
Ilex cassine, Linn. (I. dahoon, Walt.). Dahoon. Shrub or small tree, to 30 ft.: lvs. obovate to oblong- linear, acute or obtuse and mucronulate, entire or sharply serrate above the middle, usually pubescent beneath when young, 2-3 in. long: fr. globose, small, dull red, rarely yellow, on this year's growth. April, May. N. C. to Fla., west to La. S.S. 1:46. Ilex cassine var. angustifolia, Ait. Lvs. linear-oblong to linear, 2-3 in. long. Ilex cassine var. myrtifolia, Chapm. Lvs. linear-oblong, 1-2 in. long: fr. usually solitary.—Cassine or cassena is the name in the language of the Timucua Indians for an exhilarating beverage prepared from the lvs. of the following plant which had been confused with this species; the name seems to have been borrowed from the Muscogee word assi, leaves, modified by a prefix.
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==Varieties==
==Varieties==
There are three [[variety (botany)|varieties]]:<ref name=grin/>
*''Ilex cassine'' var. ''cassine''. United States, Caribbean.
*''Ilex cassine'' var. ''angustifolia'' Aiton. United States.
*''Ilex cassine'' var. ''mexicana'' (Turcz.) Loes. Mexico.
==Gallery==
==Gallery==