Ilex yunnanensis
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Ilex yunnanensis' 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 rotunda
- Ilex rubra
- Ilex rugosa
- Ilex serrata
- Ilex shennongjiaensis
- Ilex spinigera
- Ilex verticillata
- Ilex vomitoria
An evergreen shrub ultimately 10 to 12 ft high, with bright green branchlets covered with outstanding down which persists two years. Leaves of a beautiful brownish red when quite young, becoming glossy green with age, ovate, rounded at the base, acutely pointed, widely and shallowly crenulate-serrulate to crenulate, 3⁄4 to 11⁄8 in. long, rather more than half as wide. Fruits usually solitary, about 1⁄4 in. wide, red.
Native of W. China and Upper Burma; introduced by Wilson about 1901 for Messrs Veitch (W.2344) and again during his Arnold Arboretum expedition (W.4458); plants from both sendings are or were in cultivation. It is a neat, cheerful-looking evergreen, allied to I. crenata, but the leaves are more leathery, not gland-dotted beneath, the branches more downy and the fruits red.
