Dahoon Holly

While naturally a wetland plant, this species does well across a broad array of cultural conditions.



Specimen tree.

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.

Dome swamps, coastal flatwoods, transitional edges of dome swamps in flatwoods, coastal flatwoods, bay swamps, cutthroat seep.

• Showy fruits, Interesting foliage, Hurricane wind resistance
• Bees pollinate flowers. Documented bee visitors include  Hylaeus confluens, Augochlorapura, Augochlorella gratiosa, Dialictus placidensis and Sphecodes heracle (Deyrup et al. 2002).