Elegance female holly
Ilex integra · Aquifoliaceae · 감탕나무
Look
- Leaves
- Thick elliptic, long elliptic or long elliptic-obovate, 5 to 10 x 2 to 3.5 cm, with a smooth margin or two to three teeth.
- Flowers
- In March to April yellowish-green flowers 8 mm across bloom in the leaf axils; the sepals, petals and stamens number four each.
- Fruit
- The drupe is round, 1 to 1.2 cm across, ripening red from mid-August to early November.
- Bark
- Gray, smooth at first and gradually becoming rough.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Native (Korean Peninsula)
- Native to
- Northern to southern China; in the Korean Peninsula it grows in Jeollabuk-do and Jeollanam-do, Jeju, Gyeongsangnam-do, and Ulleung-do in Gyeongbuk.
- Ecology
- Slow-growing and strongly resprouting, so it withstands hard pruning.