Plant: Dodds Cranberry - Yaupon Holly
Holly · Ilex vomitoria 'Dodds Cranberry'
Size: 30 gal
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Mature size
More about this plant
Dodds Cranberry is a selection of yaupon holly, a fine textured broadleaf evergreen native to the southeastern United States with glossy leathery green leaves about an inch and a half long and smooth pale gray bark. Small greenish white flowers open in spring on separate male and female plants, and female plants carry clusters of quarter inch red drupes that ripen in fall and persist into winter for songbirds. Yaupon tolerates drought, salt spray, flooding, wind and heavy pruning, and grows in sun or shade on almost any soil. Use it as a hedge, screen, specimen or naturalized planting.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 25 ft tall and 15 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 7-9
- Evergreen foliage
- Native plant
Plant description
Dodds Cranberry is a selection of yaupon holly, a fine textured broadleaf evergreen native to the southeastern United States with glossy leathery green leaves about an inch and a half long and smooth pale gray bark. Small greenish white flowers open in spring on separate male and female plants, and female plants carry clusters of quarter inch red drupes that ripen in fall and persist into winter for songbirds. Yaupon tolerates drought, salt spray, flooding, wind and heavy pruning, and grows in sun or shade on almost any soil. Use it as a hedge, screen, specimen or naturalized planting.
- Flowers
- Small greenish white flowers appear on male and female plants in spring, around April.
- Foliage
- Oval leaves about one and a half inches long are glossy green and leathery with toothed margins.
- Fruit
- Quarter inch red drupes borne in clusters mature in fall and persist into winter on female plants.
- Bark & stems
- Bark is thin, smooth and light gray to almost white; young stems are purple and turn gray with age.
- Native range
- USA to Mexico; AL, AR, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, OK, SC, TX, VA
