Talk:Ilex verticillata

A fact from Ilex verticillata appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 October 2004. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the American Winterberry is also called the fever berry for its medicinal use among Native Americans?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2004/October.

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Self-pollinating or not?[edit]

Question was re holly article saying hollies are dioecious (period), while this article said some hollies are self pollinating. Most are dioecious. Some are self-pollinating, which is quite a sales advantage, when trying to convince a customer, who just wants to plunk a pretty plant into his garden, to buy a breeding pair of hollies, one of which will never have any berries, particularly when there is no good way to identify a male except for examining the flowers, at which point you don't want to transplant them, so the chances of getting two females which won't produce any berries is a bit too high. So there was a real motivation to find self-pollinating varities, such as Ilex aquifolium Pyramidalis, Foster holly, Burford holly, dwarf Burford holly or Nellie R. Stevens holly, list the authorities. I see one every day, a single holly bush, evergreen, usually covered in berries, but don't know the variety. Gzuckier 16:12, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

winter holly[edit]

will the dwarf male winter holly "sprite" pollinate the standard size female winter holly? Can a male pollinate a female if 2 miles apart? thanks for your reply!!

Males should be within 10 yards of females. David notMD (talk) 11:14, 13 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As food[edit]

is it edible? is it poisonous?^MY♥_INchile 20:26, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not edible. David notMD (talk) 11:14, 13 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

YRC Worldwide official color[edit]

YRC (which stands for yellow roadway corporation) says that the color of its trucks (which are orange) is based on the "swamp holly" berry which can be seen a great distance. All the other hollies that have the same name have red berries. I'm guessing YRC's holly is this one but I don't have a citation. Americasroof (talk) 16:09, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]