Ilex rotunda
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Ilex rotunda' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
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 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 rubra
- Ilex rugosa
- Ilex serrata
- Ilex shennongjiaensis
- Ilex spinigera
- Ilex verticillata
- Ilex vomitoria
- Ilex yunnanensis
An evergreen tree up to 70 ft high in the wild, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves entire, ovate or elliptic, rounded or cuneate at the base, the apex obtuse or acute and often abruptly narrowed to a short acuminate tip; petiole 3⁄8 to 3⁄4 in. long. Flowers borne on the current season’s growths in axillary umbel-like clusters, on peduncles 3⁄8 to 1⁄2 in. long; pedicels shorter than the peduncle. Fruits globose or ellipsoid, 1⁄4 to 3⁄16 in. long, red, three to eight on each peduncle; nutlets five to seven, grooved and lined on the back.
Native of Japan, Formosa, E. China, etc. It is not certain if the typical state of the species is in cultivation, though it should be hardy if introduced from the northern end of its range in Japan, where it is much cultivated for ornament.
var. microcarpa (Paxt.) Hu
Synonyms
I. microcarpa Lindl. ex Paxt