Japanese Holly
Ilex crenata · Aquifoliaceae · 꽝꽝나무
How to spot it
Small glossy alternate leaves with dark glandular dots underneath; black fruits on female plants.
Look
- Leaves
- Small elliptic to obovate simple leaves, alternate, with dark glandular dots underneath.
- Flowers
- Small fragrant greenish-white flowers in the leaf axils; four petals.
- Fruit
- Small round black drupes form on pollinated female plants and may be hidden beneath the leaves.
- Bark
- Bark is smooth, greenish brown to gray.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Native
- Native to
- Temperate East Asia from the eastern Himalaya to China, Korea and Japan.
- Ecology
- Found in forests, shrublands and damp places of lowlands and mountains in Japan; the small fragrant flowers attract bees.