Ilex cassine (female) Check with George after centuries in cultivation the

after centuries in cultivation the species has produced no garden cultivars worth keeping

rich soil in shade or part shade

Callicarpa formosana

three to four inches across

Ilex cassine (female) Check with George after centuries in cultivation theIlex cassine, the dahoon holly, is an elegant evergreen native of the southern wetlands, and this is a fruiting female, the sex that carries the crop of small, glossy red berries. Unlike the fiercely spined American holly, dahoon holds narrow, smooth edged, bright green leaves that are a pleasure to plant near a path, and in fall and winter the branches string themselves with scarlet fruit against that clean green. Grown as a large shrub or a small