The holly tree is an evergreen tree, up to 13 meters high; the bark is gray-black, and the current-year branchlets are light gray, cylindrical, with thin ribs; the biennial to perennial branches have inconspicuous small lenticels and leaf scars. Crescent, convex. The leaves are thinly leathery to leathery, oval or lanceolate, sparsely ovate, green and shiny on the surface, dark brown when dry, and light green on the back.

Male flowers: The inflorescence has 3-4 branches, the total pedicel is 7-14 mm long, the secondary rachis is 2-5 mm long, the pedicel is 2 mm long, hairless, each branch has 7-24 flowers. Flowers: lavender or purple-red, 4-5 bases; calyx shallow cup-shaped, lobes broadly ovate-triangular, with cilium;

Ovary ovoid, stigma with inconspicuous 4-5 lobes , thick disc shape. The fruit is oblong, red when mature, 10-12 mm long, 6-8 mm in diameter; with 4-5 cores, narrowly lanceolate, smooth and concave back, triangular cross-section, and thick leathery endocarp. The flowering period is from April to June, and the fruiting period is from July to December.

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Holly trees grow in evergreen broad-leaved forests and forest edges on hillside at an altitude of 500-1000 meters. They are a common garden ornamental tree species in my country; the wood is tough and used for joinery Raw material used to make toys, sculptures, tool handles, brush backs and wooden combs, etc.

When collecting seeds, choose a mother tree with a straight trunk, good growth, and about 20 years old. Harvest it in late December when the fruit turns red. You can first lay a plastic sheet under the mother tree, and then use a seed-picking knife or high branch shears to harvest the fruit branches;

The collected fruit branches are stacked in a ventilated room, avoid exposure to the sun, and wait for a period of time to mature. The fruit will not mature immediately. Fall off, and the seeds can be stored with the peel until the following spring.