Flowers: Flower Color: Green White Flower Inflorescence: Cyme Flower Value To Gardener: Fragrant Flower Bloom Time: Spring Flower Petals: 4-5 petals/rays Flower Size: Sky Pencil Holly cultivars are all female, thus a male cultivar is required nearby for pollination. Fruit: Fruit Color: Black Fruit Value To Gardener: Showy Display/Harvest Time: Fall Winter Fruit Type: Berry Drupe Fruit Length:
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Cultural Conditions: Light: Full sun (6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day) Partial Shade (Direct sunlight only part of the day, 2-6 hours) Soil Texture: Clay Loam (Silt) Sand Soil pH: Acid (Whole Plant Traits: Plant Type: Shrub Woody Plant Leaf Characteristics: Broadleaf Evergreen Habit/Form: Columnar Dense Erect Multi-stemmed Growth Rate: Slow Maintenance: Medium Texture: Medium Appendage: Spines.Human ingestion of berries can cause minor toxic reaction. Play Value: Wildlife Food Source Particularly Resistant To (Insects/Diseases/Other Problems): Mildly resistant to damage by deer. Members of the genus Ilex support the following specialized bee: Colletes banksi. Attributes: Genus: Ilex Species: crenata Family: Aquifoliaceae Life Cycle: Woody Recommended Propagation Strategy: Seed Stem Cutting Country Or Region Of Origin: East Nepal to Temperate East Asia, Japan and Korea Fire Risk Rating: medium flammability Wildlife Value: The small fragrant flowers attract bees.Tags: #small tree #full sun tolerant #shrub #dark green #accent plant #mixed borders #columnar #easy to transplant #glossy leaves #formal garden #border planting #black fruits #urban conditions tolerant #clay soils tolerant #partial shade tolerant #stormwater demo garden orange co See this plant in the following landscape: Cultivars / Varieties: The Clemson Cooperative Extension Home and Garden Information Center has a factsheet on common diseases and insect pests. Alkaline soils will cause the leaves to yellow. Spider mites and nematodes are occasional pests. This plant needs protection from the wind and cold with a wind break and mulching. Sky Pencil Holly is an all-female cultivar which needs a male pollinator in order to produce fruit.ĭiseases, Insect Pests, and Other Plant Problems: It is pollinated by bees and is not self-fertile. The species is dioecious (meaning individual flowers are either male or female, but only one sex is to be found on any one plant, thus both male and female plants must be grown if seed is required).
It does have a slow growth rate and it may not thrive in areas with high heat and humidity (USDA zones 8 and 9). However, it does not do well in alkaline soils or under drought conditions. Plant in the full sun to partial shade in acidic well-drained soil though it tolerates a wide range of soil types, from moist to dry, and actually prefers clay. Sky Pencil Holly is easy to transplant and urban tolerant.
The Sky Pencil Holly was voted Holly of the Year for 2004 by the Holly Society of America. It is a good container or accent plant and works well in formal gardens as it provides a good vertical accent in mixed borders. It has a fastigate form, meaning narrowing toward the top and having upright, usually clustered, branches that it maintains without pruning. Sky Pencil Holly is a handsome evergreen shrub that is smaller that most of the species at 6 to 8 feet high, is densely branched, tight, and has columnar growth. The Sky Pencil Holly is a cultivar of Ilex Crenata, Japanese Holly, a native of Japan and east Asia that can be found in thickets, woods and wet places in lowland and mountains all over Japan. Phonetic Spelling EYE-leks kre-NAH-tuh This plant has low severity poison characteristics.
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