Ilex vomitoria (male) ‘Will Fleming’ prophouse-on-the-horizon and pitcher plants

and pitcher plants

borne in such profusion that the bush seems to foam white

but Aucuba japonica 'Rozannie' needs no such arrangement

This is a plant of the Florida scrub

Ilex vomitoria (male) ‘Will Fleming’ prophouse-on-the-horizon and pitcher plantsYaupon is the small leaved evergreen holly of the Southeast, native along the coastal plain from Virginia to Texas and a member of the holly family, Aquifoliaceae. The wild plant is a broad, twiggy shrub, so a yaupon that grows straight up like a green column is a genuine oddity. 'Will Fleming' is exactly that: a male selection with a strict fastigiate habit, reaching twelve to fifteen feet tall on a base only two or three feet wide, a living