Holly. It is a multi-branch evergreen shrub of Ilex and Ilex, and its height can reach 5 meters. Bark is gray-black, young branches are gray or brown, leaves are leathery, obovate, oval or oblong-oval, the apex is round, blunt or nearly acute, the base is blunt or wedge-shaped, the edge is crenate, the leaves are bright green, the back is light green, and brown glandular spots are densely distributed. The petiole has grooves on the surface, and the lower part is raised and pubescent. Stipules subulate, small. Male flowers are arranged in cymes, which are solitary in the axils or lower leaves of annual branches, or pseudo-clustered in the axils of biennial branches, and the pedicels of single flowers have bracteoles near the middle; White flowers; Calyx is discoid, hairless, lobes are broadly triangular, petals are broadly elliptic, stamens are shorter than petals, anthers are oval, degenerated ovaries are conical, petals are ovoid, ovaries are ovoid, fruits are spherical, fruit stalks persist, calyx unfolds, blooms in May-June, and bears fruit in August-65438+10.
Distributed in China, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan Province, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan and Qingdao. It is also distributed in Japan and South Korea, and cultivated in Europe and America. Born in hills, mountain forests or bushes at an altitude of 700-2 100 meters. Duishang Mountain, which grows at an altitude of about 500 meters in Taohua Island, Putuo, Zhejiang Province, has a narrow area and is scattered in bushes dominated by Toona sinensis and Euonymus japonicus, accompanied by cedar, heather, Ardisia japonica, Ardisia japonica, Toona sinensis, Spiraea japonica, Ardisia japonica and Rhamnus longifolia.