Ilex mitis – Cape Holly Bonsai & Bonsai eBook – 5 Seed Pack

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Ilex is a large genus of around 500 species of evergreen and deciduous trees, shrubs, and climbers from woodland areas the world over. The Ilex genus is placed in the Aquifoliaceae family and the only living genus in that family. Hollies are grown for their leaves, which are often spiny and glossy, and their colourful berries, which time and again draw birds to the garden. Flowers are small, cup-shaped, and rather inconspicuous and are borne from spring to early summer. Male and female plants are usually needed for fruiting. Hollies need moist but well-drained soil of moderate fertility in full sun or partial shade. It is best to plant or move hollies in early spring. Prune in late winter or early spring if necessary.

Ilex mitis, commonly known as African Holly, Cape Holly, Wild Holly and Watertree in English and Waterboom, Waterhout or Without in Afrikaans, has attractive bark and berries. It grows throughout the country, making it suitable for colder, frosty gardens and for the art of bonsai throughout South Africa. It is an evergreen tree, with a rounded canopy. The stems are normally round and the bark on the young tree is a pale grey-brown with patches of white, smooth with fine, transverse ridges and yellow- brown corky specks. As the tree becomes older it becomes evenly whitish grey with dark and rough spots. Young twigs are a reddish purple colour. The lance-shaped, simple, alternate leaves are a shiny dark green and are carried on plum-coloured stalks. They are pointed, sometimes curled tips and wavy, sometimes slightly toothed margins. The plum-coloured leaf stalks help to identify the tree. The midrib is sharply impressed above and prominent below. The small flowers are borne in spring or early summer in bunches between the leaf axils. They are white and sweetly scented. Ilex is the Latin name for the Holm oak, and mitis means unarmed, alluding to the leaves which are not prominently toothed, unlike some other species in the genus which have sharply spiny leaves, such as the traditional holly, Ilex aquifolium, used in Europe and North America for Christmas decorations.

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