Plant: Green Lustre - Holly
Holly · Ilex crenata 'Green Lustre'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
Green Lustre is a cultivar of Japanese holly, a slow growing dense broadleaf evergreen shrub with small shiny dark green leaves one half to one and a quarter inches long, crowded on the stems and edged with crenate teeth. Dull greenish white fragrant flowers open in spring in clusters of one to three, and pollinated female plants carry small black globose drupes that ripen in early fall and persist into spring. Japanese holly grows in full sun to partial shade on well drained acid to neutral soil, tolerates drought, shade and poor soil, and is used for low hedges, borders, foundation beds and mass plantings.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 25 ft tall and 15 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-8
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
Green Lustre is a cultivar of Japanese holly, a slow growing dense broadleaf evergreen shrub with small shiny dark green leaves one half to one and a quarter inches long, crowded on the stems and edged with crenate teeth. Dull greenish white fragrant flowers open in spring in clusters of one to three, and pollinated female plants carry small black globose drupes that ripen in early fall and persist into spring. Japanese holly grows in full sun to partial shade on well drained acid to neutral soil, tolerates drought, shade and poor soil, and is used for low hedges, borders, foundation beds and mass plantings.
- Flowers
- Small greenish white fragrant flowers about one third to one half inch across appear in spring in clusters of one to three.
- Foliage
- Leaves are small, one half to one and a quarter inches long, crowded on the stems, shiny and dark green on the upper surface with crenate margins.
- Fruit
- Black globose berrylike drupes on pollinated female plants ripen in early fall and persist into spring.
- Native range
- East Nepal to Temperate East Asia, Japan and Korea
