Yaupon Holly Texas Native This lovely plant delights us

This lovely plant delights us with a heavy bloom in spring and a gentler display in summer

Pigeonberry

it can handle heat and drought a bit better than its eastern and central North American sugar maple relatives

a popular houseplant named for its surprise "discovery" in a shipment of ferns from Philadelphia to Boston in 1894

shiny black drupe

Yaupon Holly Texas Native This lovely plant delights usIlex vomitoria Common names include Yaupon Holly, Yaupon, Cassina Yaupon Holly is native to a variety of areas including sandy woods, dunes, open fields, forest edges and wet swamps. This is a thicket forming, broadleaf evergreen shrub or small tree that typically grows upright. Often trimmed into hedges. Yaupon is slow growing and tends to get thick and twiggy on the inside, making it ideal for dense hedges but requiring careful pruning to shape it