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Ilex cornuta 'Rotunda'
Horned Holly
Plant Type:
BROADLEAF EVERGREEN SHRUBSIlex cornuta 'Rotunda' – This is a wonderful female form of dwarf Horned Holly, slow growing with glossy prickly green foliage looking every bit like barbed leaves from the Fantastic Angry Green Planet. (I'm not sure where said planet may be but I'd like to visit. Where's the nearest wormhole?) White flowers in spring give way to glossy red berries fall and winter. Site it in full to part sun planted in fertile draining soils. Though tolerant of a range of soils it's probably happiest in one on the acid side of the Ph spectrum. Spring planting is strongly advised. Cutting grown.
Characteristics and Attributes for Ilex cornuta 'Rotunda'
Season of Interest (Flowering)
- Spring
Season of Interest (Foliage)
- Four Seasons
Autumn Interest
- Fruit / Berries / Seed Heads
Nature Attraction
- Honey Bees & Native Bees
- Songbirds
Light
- Full Sun
- Mostly Sunny
Attributes
- Rock Garden
- Border
- Hedge
- Evergreen
- Specimen
- Foundation
Growth Rate in the Garden
- Slow
Soil
- Fertile
- Acid
Origins
- Garden Origin
Propagated By
- Cutting Grown
Genus Overview: Ilex
Common Name: Holly
Hollies from midgets to monsters are wonderful shrubs! Some are evergreen, others deciduous with females revealing copious crops of bright fruit from autumn into winter in various colors which are cultivar dependent. The Ilex x meserveae cultivars are just plain beautiful evergreens happy in sun to open shade in fertile, acid and moisture retaining soils. Winterberries, Ilex verticillata, are happy in full to mostly sunny sites in moist to even wet soils; they are often great autumn/winter fixtures in roadside ditches. The midgets are cute in the rock garden or even in containers. Ilex cornuta's spiny leaves look like giant glossy green mutant horned beetles - just fascinating in their structure. All are terrific wildlife plants and they add so much beauty and multi-seasonal appeal. Cutting grown.