Ilex cassine (male) Nuccio's Nurseries One caution belongs with the

One caution belongs with the beauty: like all jessamines

In bloom the flowers seem to hover against the glossy leaves like a scatter of dark red stars

the glossy foliage holds all year

That does not last

Ilex cassine (male) Nuccio's Nurseries One caution belongs with theIlex 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