Chinese name: Ilex narrow name: ilex fargesii franch. Section: Aquifoliaceae family: aquifoliaceae Genus: Ilex introduce: A small evergreen tree, up to 7 meters; branchlets brown or chestnut-brown, glabrous. Leaves nearly leathery, oblanceolate or oblanceolate strip, 5-13.5 cm long, 1.2-1.5 cm wide, margin serrulate above middle, end and black pointed teeth, no hair, slightly above shiny; petiole 10-18 mm. Dioecious; male flowers white, fragrant, 4 the number of flower clusters axillary born within the last year, with 3 branches per cluster flowers, calyx diameter of 2 mm, petals obovate oblong, 2 mm; female flowers per cluster a branch from a single flowers. Fruit spherical, 6 mm in diameter, red, sub-nuclear 4. Distributed in western Hubei and Sichuan. Health trees. This species is very similar with the mountain loquat, different kinds of leaves in the narrow, serrulate above the middle edge. |
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