Scientific name: Holly.

English name: Holly

Family name: seed plants, angiosperms, Euonymus, Ilex, Ilex. Ettan. ).

Alias: mistletoe, mistletoe, mistletoe, willow mistletoe, yellow mistletoe, frozen green, parasitic odor: (seed, bark) sweet, bitter, cool and nontoxic.

Morphological characteristics:

Evergreen trees, up to13m; The bark is gray or light gray, with longitudinal grooves, and the branchlets are light green and hairless. Leaves are thinly leathery, oblong or lanceolate, 5- 1 1 cm long and 2-4 cm wide, with tapering tips, wedge-shaped base, sparsely shallowly toothed edges, reddish brown and shiny after drying; Petiole is usually purplish red and 0.5- 1.5 cm long. Cymes are inserted in or outside the axils of new branches, with 10-30 male inflorescences and 3-7 female inflorescences; Petals purplish red or lavender, rolled outward. The fruit is oval or nearly spherical, and it is dark red when mature; The nucleus is 4-5, with 1 longitudinal groove on the back. The flowering period is May-June, and the fruit ripening period is September-June.