Ilex integra SEO Photos courtesy of Jim Robbins

Photos courtesy of Jim Robbins

Yaupon is the small-leaved evergreen holly of the southeastern United States

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the blood iris repays a pond edge or a low moist border by thickening

Ilex integra SEO Photos courtesy of Jim RobbinsIlex integra is the holly for people who do not think they like hollies, an evergreen tree from Japan whose leaves carry no spines at all. The dark green foliage is smooth edged, glossy, and thick, giving a clean, almost magnolia like calm, and on female trees the show comes in fall and winter, when bright red berries gather along the branches against the deep green. The botanical name marks the difference: integra means entire or undivided, for those