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Ilex cassine (dahoon)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Ilex cassine is a holly native to the southeastern coast of North America, in the United States from Virginia to southeast Texas, in Mexico in Veracruz, and in the Caribbean on the Bahamas, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. It is commonly known as Dahoon Holly or Cassena, the latter derived from the Timucua name for I. vomitoria. As with other hollies, it is dioecious with separate male and female plants. Only the females have berries, and a male pollenizer must be within range for bees to pollinate them. There are three varieties:
View Wikipedia Record: Ilex cassine

Infraspecies

Ilex cassine cassine
Ilex cassine chiapensis
Ilex cassine mexicana
Ilex cassine var. latifolia

Attributes

Bloom Period [1]  Spring
Drought Tolerance [1]  Low
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Fire Tolerance [1]  High
Flower Type [2]  Dioecious
Frost Free Days [1]  6 months 20 days
Fruit/Seed Abundance [1]  High
Fruit/Seed Begin [1]  Summer
Fruit/Seed End [1]  Fall
Growth Form [1]  Single Stem
Growth Period [1]  Spring, Summer
Growth Rate [1]  Moderate
Hazards [2]  Although no specific reports of toxicity have been seen for this species, the fruits of at least some members of this genus contain saponins and are slightly toxic. They can cause vomiting, diarrhoea and stupor if eaten in quantity;
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Bees
Propagation [1]  Bare Root, Container, Seed
Root Depth [1]  12 inches (30 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [1]  Slow
Seed Vigor [1]  Low
Shape/Orientation [1]  Erect
Structure [2]  Tree
Usage [2]  The plant has been used as a soap; No more information is given. Wood - soft, light, close-grained, not strong; It weighs 30lb per cubic foot; Of no commercial importance;
Vegetative Spread Rate [1]  Moderate
Flower Color [1]  Yellow
Foliage Color [1]  Dark Green
Fruit Color [1]  Red
Fruit Conspicuous [1]  Yes
Height [2]  33 feet (10 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 8 Low Temperature: 10 F° (-12.2 C°) → 20 F° (-6.7 C°)
Light Preference [1]  Mostly Shady
Soil Acidity [1]  Very Acid
Soil Fertility [1]  Infertile
Water Use [1]  High
Screening - Summer [1]  Dense
Screening - Winter [1]  Dense
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Protected Areas

Predators

Eucalymnatus tessellatus (tessellated scale)[3]
Hemiberlesia lataniae (latania scale)[3]
Incisalia henrici (Henry's Elfin)[4]
Niveaspis ilicis[3]

Range Map

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 4HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0