ILEX aquifolium

'English Holly'. Evergreen shrub, occasionally also a tree. Branches dark or light green. Leaves evergreen, leathery-tough, dark green and glossy above. Coarse thorny toothed, teeth varying by cultivar and age. Flowers deoecious, usually 3 in small cymes on male plants, solitary on female plants. Fruits a globose to slightly ovate drupe with coral-red pod, ripening in September, but persisting to March.(7)