Plant: Needlepoint - Holly
Holly · Ilex cornuta 'Anicet Delcambre'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
Needlepoint is a dense, erect, pyramidal Chinese holly growing 15 to 20 feet tall and 10 to 20 feet wide at a rapid rate. Its lustrous dark green leaves are narrow and slightly twisted with a large terminal spine, and vivid red quarter inch berries on female plants persist into winter. It takes full sun to partial shade in acid to neutral soil with good drainage and resists deer, drought, heat and salt. Use it as a barrier, a screen, a clipped hedge or an accent.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 20 ft tall and 20 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 7-9
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
Needlepoint is a dense, erect, pyramidal Chinese holly growing 15 to 20 feet tall and 10 to 20 feet wide at a rapid rate. Its lustrous dark green leaves are narrow and slightly twisted with a large terminal spine, and vivid red quarter inch berries on female plants persist into winter. It takes full sun to partial shade in acid to neutral soil with good drainage and resists deer, drought, heat and salt. Use it as a barrier, a screen, a clipped hedge or an accent.
- Flowers
- Small, four parted, radial, axillary dull white fragrant flowers in late spring.
- Foliage
- Spiny, coriaceous, lustrous dark green leaves 1.5 to 2 inches long, yellow-green beneath, slightly twisted with a large spine at the tip.
- Fruit
- Vivid red berries about a quarter inch across produced on female plants, persisting into winter.
- Bark & stems
- Light gray smooth bark becoming finely flaky with age; slender green stems turning reddish-green in winter with dense branchlets.
- Native range
- Eastern China and Korea
