Characteristics
Dicots
Ilex x attenuata Ashe
EAST PALATKA HOLLY; TOPAL HOLLY
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This hybrid is frequently cultivated. Compared to Ilex opaca, the leaf blade is more narrowly elliptic with a more acute leaf blade base. Compared to Ilex cassine, the leaf blade apex is more acuminate with a spinose tip.
Native
Classification
Citation
ILEX X ATTENUATA Ashe (I. cassine x I. opaca), J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 40: 44. 1924.
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FLORIDA: Walton Co.: Near Mossyhead P.O., Apr & Oct 1923, Ashe s.n. (holotype: NCU?; isotype: NY).