Ilex mutchagara Landscaper Favorite The tree carries the name

The tree carries the name of Augustine Henry

The dark leaves make a fine backdrop for lighter foliage and for the scarlet winter fruit

The cross is believed to have arisen in the 1920s at the Royal Hungarian Horticultural School in Budapest

where the nodding bells can be met at eye level

Ilex mutchagara Landscaper Favorite The tree carries the nameIlex mutchagara is a quiet, graceful evergreen holly from Okinawa, close enough to the familiar Japanese holly, Ilex crenata, that some botanists treat it as a form of that species. The small, glossy, dark green leaves carry fine teeth along the edges but no spines at all, and the habit is open and airy rather than dense, giving the shrub a lighter, more relaxed look than the tightly sheared boxwood substitutes it resembles. Native to Okinawa in the