Ilex pedunculosa (male) 26/1 Restock A rare and storied small

A rare and storied small tree for the collector willing to give it the drainage it demands

grown right here in Aiken soil

so that the tree and the written word grew up together in the northern imagination

and shaded slopes from Pennsylvania south to Florida and west toward the prairies

Ilex pedunculosa (male) 26/1 Restock A rare and storied smallIlex pedunculosa (male) is the pollen partner for one of the most refined and cold hardy evergreen hollies in cultivation. Like the female, this male longstalk holly carries smooth, spineless, glossy leaves closer to mountain laurel than to a prickly Christmas holly, on a slow, medium to large shrub or small tree of quiet good looks. What the male does not do is fruit; what the male does is make that fruit possible. Longstalk hollies are dioecious,