Plant: Virginia Dare - Holly
Holly · Ilex vomitoria 'Virginia Dare'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
Virginia Dare is a female yaupon holly selection, a native evergreen that grows taller than most forms and carries orange-cast berries through fall and winter. It takes full sun to deep shade, tolerates drought, salt and wet soil, and resists deer. Use it as a clipped or informal hedge, screen or specimen; plant a male nearby for reliable fruit.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 25 ft tall and 15 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-9
- Evergreen foliage
- Native plant
Plant description
Virginia Dare is a female yaupon holly selection, a native evergreen that grows taller than most forms and carries orange-cast berries through fall and winter. It takes full sun to deep shade, tolerates drought, salt and wet soil, and resists deer. Use it as a clipped or informal hedge, screen or specimen; plant a male nearby for reliable fruit.
- Flowers
- Small green-white fragrant flowers, solitary or paired in the leaf axils in spring, generally inconspicuous.
- Foliage
- Glossy, leathery, crenate-edged green leaves 1 to 3 inches long, elliptical to ovate.
- Fruit
- A female selection with orange-cast fruits about a quarter inch across in clusters, maturing in fall and persisting into winter.
- Bark & stems
- Stems are purple when young, turning gray to white-gray with thin, smooth bark.
- Pruning
- Tolerates heavy pruning and can be sheared into a hedge, screen or topiary; remove suckers to prevent thickets.
- Native range
- Eastern United States and Mexico
