ID Plant: ILOPSpecies (from ID Plant):Ilex opacaCultivar Name (from Cult ID):Little's Ruby FireAccession ID: 8889Accession Number: 2011-0039Accession Date: 2011-01-31Lineage Number: 20110039
Collection ID:1899Name Received As: Ilex opaca 'Little's Ruby Fire'
Accessioned Form:PTAccessioned Container:POAccessioned Size:galAccessioned Quantity: 1
Provenance Type:GAccession Sensitive:NSStaff Receiving This Accession (from Person Number):LiloiaAccession Notes: gift from Parker Little; Description from Holly Society Journal: Chance seedling tree selected in the wild by Parker L. Little in Hanover County, Virginia, in 1995. Original tree is broadly columnar, 6.7 m tall and 4.3 m wide after about 40 years. Leaves broadly elliptic, flat to slightly keeled, to 8.5 cm long by 5.0 cm wide. Bases obtuse; margins with 5-6 prominent spines, mostly upturned. Fruits globose, 9 mm long and 8 mm in diameter, Red Group 45B. Registered 3-99 by Parker L. Little of Beaverdam, Virginia, published Holly Society Journal 17(3): 19-20 (1999)
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