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How to Grow
Water
Low - Medium
Water sparingly, allowing the mix to nearly dry out between watering.
Sunlight
Full Sun
6+ hours of direct sun per day
Characteristics
Bloom Time
Mar, Apr, May
Plant Type
Shrubs, Trees, Shrub, Tree
Lifespan
Perennial, Woody
Flower
Small (.2 inches), dull, greenish white fragrant flowers in spring that form in clusters of 1-3. Pistillate cyme, in leaf axils of current season's growth; staminate solitary in leaf axils of current season's growth.
Fruit
Black, globose, berrylike-fruit on female plants from fall to spring that are .2" in length.
Benefits
Attracts
Bees
Pollinators
Specialized Bees
Taxonomy
Order
Celastrales
Family
Ilex - Hollies
Genus
Ilex