Ilex pedunculosa (male) 26/1 Restock oval and gray-green

oval and gray-green

give the tree a lush

in Aichi Prefecture

but the sweet and the old throat medicine of that name come from a different plant

grown right here in Aiken soil

Ilex pedunculosa (male) 26/1 Restock oval and gray-greenIlex pedunculosa (male) is the pollen partner for one of the most refined and cold hardy evergreen hollies in cultivation. Like the female, this male longstalk holly carries smooth, spineless, glossy leaves closer to mountain laurel than to a prickly Christmas holly, on a slow, medium to large shrub or small tree of quiet good looks. What the male does not do is fruit; what the male does is make that fruit possible. Longstalk hollies are dioecious,