Ilex laevigata
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Ilex laevigata' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Synonyms
- Prinos laevigatus Pursh
Infraspecifics
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 glabra
- Ilex hayatana
- Ilex hookeri
- Ilex integra
- Ilex intricata
- Ilex kingiana
- 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
A deciduous shrub 6 to 8 ft high; young shoots glabrous. Leaves narrowly oval, obovate or lanceolate, tapered at both ends, 11⁄2 to 21⁄2 in. long, 1⁄2 to 3⁄4 in. wide, finely pointed, obscurely toothed, pale green and glossy on both surfaces, and glabrous except sometimes for a little down along the veins beneath; stalk 1⁄4 in. or less long. Male flower on slender stalks 1⁄3 to 3⁄4 in. long; female ones on very short stalks; calyx glabrous. Fruits orange-red, 1⁄3 in. in diameter, solitary.
Native of the eastern United States; introduced in 1812. This is not so well known in gardens as I. verticillata, nor is it perhaps so ornamental with us. It is closely allied to that species, under the notice of which some distinctions are pointed out. It may be added here that the leaf-stalks are generally shorter and the fruits larger in I. laevigata. Both species grow in low, wet situations in the wild.