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Shrub
Perennial

Native: subtropical Florida
Documented growing wild in - NC -

Waif(s)

Look for it in disturbed, acid, peaty soil, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Pale green
Radially symmetrical
4-merous
4 sepals
4 petals
Superior ovary
Flowers in axillary compound umbels

FRUIT:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Bright red
Drupe

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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Celastrales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Crossopetalum ilicifolium FAMILY Celastraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crossopetalum ilicifolium FAMILY Celastraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Rhacoma ilicifolia

COMMON NAME:
Holly-leaf Rhacoma, Christmasberry, Quailberry

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picture of Crossopetalum ilicifolium, image of Crossopetalum ilicifolium, photograph of -

Keith Bradley kab_c_ilicifol1_kb72035_1

December Miami-Dade County FL

Navy Wells Pineland Preserve

Leaf margins spiny-toothed, coriaceous, per Weakley's Flora.

"Despite what developers will tell you about restoration, she said, once a piece of land is graded, the biologic organisms and understructure of the soil are destroyed. 'No one knows how to easily re-create that, short of years of hand-weeding. Leaving land alone doesn't work; the natives are overwhelmed by the invaders.' Spot bulldozing is common... even on land that is supposedly protected. 'Much of this destruction is done out of expediency and ignorance.' She believed people are unlikely to value what they cannot name." — Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods, quoting biologist Elaine Brooks