Carolina Holly

Plant as a small understory tree. Good as a general background plant that is appropriate to wildlife.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

It's dioecious; so make sure you have at least one male plant in the vicinity to produce berries on the females.

Fruits are eaten by birds and small mammals.

Dry hammocks, sandhills, scrub, dunes.

• Showy fruits
• Bees pollinate flowers.