English Holly
Ilex aquifolium · Aquifoliaceae · 유럽호랑가시나무
How to spot it
Characterized by thick evergreen leaves with spiny teeth and the berries of female trees that last into winter.
Look
- Leaves
- Thick, glossy alternate leaves with spiny teeth on the margins.
- Flowers
- Small, fragrant white flowers grow in clusters.
- Fruit
- Small drupes, mostly ripening red. Sources covering the species and cultivated forms also record yellow and orange fruit.
- Bark
- Smooth bark, gray to black.
Where it grows
- Native to
- Native to western and central Europe, North Africa and western Asia.
- Ecology
- In its native range it grows in scrub, hedgerows and the understory of forests; the flowers attract bees and the fruit feeds birds.