Ilex cassine (male) Nuccio's Nurseries folded into jams and curries

folded into jams and curries

One caution belongs with the beauty: like all jessamines

this is the form that finally made gardeners look twice at a native shrub long overlooked despite centuries of quiet usefulness

Cycas revoluta has been cultivated in East Asian gardens for centuries and became a fixture of Deep South landscapes in the United States

Ilex cassine (male) Nuccio's Nurseries folded into jams and curriesIlex cassine, the Dahoon Holly, is one of the most useful evergreen hollies of the South, an upright shrub or small tree with bright green, oval, nearly spineless leaves. Female plants carry heavy crops of small, bright red berries, but this is a male selection, grown not for fruit but as the pollen partner that lets nearby female Dahoons set that red winter display. The name cassine carries a deep history. Early naturalists took the word from