Ilex glabra
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Ilex glabra' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Other taxa in genus
- Ilex × altaclarensis
- Ilex aquifolium
- Ilex bioritsensis
- Ilex buergeri
- Ilex cassine
- Ilex ciliospinosa
- Ilex corallina
- Ilex cornuta
- Ilex crenata
- Ilex cyrtura
- Ilex decidua
- Ilex dipyrena
- Ilex fargesii
- Ilex forrestii
- Ilex geniculata
- Ilex hayatana
- Ilex hookeri
- Ilex integra
- Ilex intricata
- Ilex kingiana
- Ilex laevigata
- Ilex latifolia
- Ilex linii
- Ilex macrocarpa
- Ilex melanotricha
- Ilex mitis
- Ilex montana
- Ilex nothofagifolia
- Ilex opaca
- Ilex pedunculosa
- Ilex perado
- Ilex pernyi
- Ilex purpurea
- Ilex rotunda
- Ilex rubra
- Ilex rugosa
- Ilex serrata
- Ilex shennongjiaensis
- Ilex spinigera
- Ilex verticillata
- Ilex vomitoria
- Ilex yunnanensis
An evergreen shrub 3 to 7 ft high, with erect branches, densely leafy; young shoots angular, minutely downy. Leaves narrowly obovate to oblanceolate, entire, or with a few obscure teeth near the apex, 3⁄4 to 13⁄4 in. long, 1⁄3 to 5⁄8 in, wide, dark green above, paler beneath, glossy and glabrous on both surfaces; stalk 1⁄8 to 1⁄4 in. long. Male flowers borne three or more together on a slender stalk; females solitary; both very small. Fruits round, black, 1⁄4 in. diameter; nutlets smooth.
Native of eastern N. America; introduced in 1759. Emerson says this shrub is occasionally found 8 or 9 ft high, but it is very slow-growing, and plants I know to be forty years old are only 3 or 4 ft high. It is a neat-habited evergreen, quite unarmed, but of no particular merit, and rather like a phillyrca.
