Buxus macrophylla
Buxus macrophylla is a Buxus plant of Buxus family.
The leaves are leathery or thin, ovate, elliptic or oblong-lanceolate or even lanceolate, with bright leaves, only the base of midvein and petiole on the leaves are finely hairy, and the rest are hairless.
Chinese ilex
Ilex is a plant of Ilex in Ilex family.
Leaves alternate, long oval, thin grass, sparsely shallow serrate at the edge, dark green and shiny on the surface.
Holly, an evergreen tree, is as high as 13 meters; Bark gray-black, annual branchlets light gray, cylindrical, with thin edges; Two-to perennial branches have inconspicuous lenticels, and the leaf scars are crescent-shaped and convex.
Leaf blade is thin leathery to leathery, oval or lanceolate, thin ovoid, 5 to 1 1 cm long and 2 to 4 cm wide, with a tapering tip, a wedge-shaped or obtuse base, rounded edges, or sometimes serrated in young leaves, with green and shiny leaves, dark brown when dry, light green on the back, and flat main veins on the leaves and raised on the back. Petiole 8 to 10 mm long, flat or sometimes with narrow grooves on it.
Male flowers: the inflorescence has 3 to 4 branches, the total pedicel length is 7 to 14 mm, the secondary axis length is 2 to 5 mm, the pedicel length is 2 mm, and there are 7 to 24 flowers in each branch. Flowers lavender or purplish red, 4 to 5 cardinal numbers; Calyx shallow cup-shaped, lobes broadly ovate-triangular, ciliate; Corolla radial, about 5 mm in diameter, petals ovoid, 2.5 mm long and 2 mm wide, reflexed when open, slightly connate at the base; Stamens shorter than petals, 1.5 mm long, anthers elliptic; Degenerate ovary conical, less than 1 mm; Female flower: the inflorescence has 1 to 2 branches, with 3 to 7 flowers, and the total pedicel length is about 3 to 10 mm, which is flat and the secondary axis is not well developed; Pedicel length 6 to 10 mm; Calyx and petals are male flowers, staminodes are about 1/2 of petals, and abortive anthers are heart-shaped; Ovary ovoid, stigma with inconspicuous 4-to 5-lobed, thick disk-shaped.
The fruit is spherical, red at maturity, 10 to 12 mm in length and 6 to 8 mm in diameter; The nucleus is 4 to 5, narrowly lanceolate, 9 to 1 1 mm in length and 2.5 mm in width. The back is smooth and concave, with a triangular cross section and a thick leathery endocarp. The flowering period is from April to June and the fruiting period is from July to1February.