| Dicotyledon | Literature for Ilex aquifolium
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Aquifoliaceae -- The Holly Family | Bibliography |
| Ilex aquifolium | |
Common name(s): holly, English holly, European holly |
| General Information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Distribution | Native to southern and western Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia; widely cultivated.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Evergreen shrubs or small trees 2-10 m tall. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves dark green, thick, glossy, ovate or elliptic, 5-12 cm long, 2.5-5.5 cm wide, glabrous, margins usually thickened, undulate, regularly or irregularly toothed, the teeth stiff, spreading, spinose, rarely entire. |
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| Flowers |
Flowers fragrant, in fasciculate cymes along previous year's growth, up to ca. 1 cm long, peduncles 0.3-0.5 cm
long; calyx lobes 4, deltate, ca. 1.5-2 mm long; corolla lobes ca. 4 mm long; ovary 4-celled. |
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| Fruit |
Fruit bright red, 8-10 mm in diameter. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 40, ca. 46 |
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