The colorful mangrove tree means many children and grandchildren, a prosperous family and a prosperous business. It is an ideal courtyard tree species and garden ornamental tree species.
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Ilex rotunda? Thunb. is an evergreen tree or shrub of the genus Ilex in the Ilex family. Its branches are gray, the branchlets are ribbed, and they are reddish brown; the leaves are alternate. , oval to elliptical, with glossy top; flowers are unisexual, dioecious, umbel-shaped, oval-oblong, with smaller female flowers and thicker flower stalks; drupe is spherical to oval, red when ripe; flowering period May to June, fruiting period from September to October.
Because the leaves are dark green, the twigs are purple, and the fruits are bright red, it is called "a thousand purples and reds" in garden applications. Iron holly is distributed in North Korea, Japan, Vietnam and China. It is cultivated in most areas such as Jiangsu, Anhui, and Jiangxi in China. It grows in evergreen broad-leaved forests and forest edges on slopes at an altitude of 400-1100 meters. Iron holly is a shade-tolerant tree species.
It likes a warm and humid climate and loose, fertile, well-drained acidic soil. It has strong adaptability and is resistant to barrenness, drought and frost. Ilex can be propagated sexually through seeds and can also be propagated by cuttings. Ilex is an excellent fruit-bearing tree species, suitable for planting alone or in groups in gardens. It is recorded in "Medicinal Materia Medica" that its roots and leaves can be used as medicine to treat colds, acute enteritis, and rheumatic bone pain.
The bark can also stop bleeding. The bark of Ilex can also be used to extract dyes and glue; the wood is used for joinery. The fruits of Ilex are rich in nutrients and are also one of the fruits that birds love. People give Tie Dongqing the meaning of "many children" and also the meaning of a prosperous family and a prosperous business, which entrusts people with their good wishes. The flowers are in cymes or umbrella-shaped inflorescences with (2-)4-6-13 flowers, solitary in the leaf axils of current-year branches.
Male inflorescence: total pedicel 3-11 mm long, glabrous, pedicel 3-5 mm long, glabrous or puberulent, ovate-triangular base, 1-2 bracteoles or none Flowers are white, with 4 bases; the calyx is disc-shaped, about 2 mm in diameter, puberulent, 4-lobed, and the lobes are broadly ovate-triangular, about 0.3 mm long, glabrous or ciliate.
The corolla is radial, about 5 mm in diameter, the petals are oblong, 2.5 mm long, and about 1.5 mm wide. They are reflexed when open, and the base is slightly connate; the stamens are longer than the petals, and the anthers are ovate-elliptical, longitudinally Split; vestigial ovary is cushion-shaped, with a beak about 1 mm long in the center, and 5 or 6 thin lobes at the top of the beak.