…and will soon be a small tree. Ilex opaca Ilex opaca Ilex opaca An elderly Enkianthus chinensis with the full autumn show. Enkianthus chinensis Enkianthus chinensis Enkianthus chinensis Pruncus incisa…

…cyrtura Ilex cyrtura The other major name change is that our second supposed Ilex cornuta is in fact Ilex cornuta ‘Burfordii’.Ilex opaca (we have two upon finding a second one…

…Betula utilis subsp. albosinensis ‘Chinese Garden’ Nearly ripe fruits on Euonymus moupinensis which will soon split open. Euonymus moupinensis Ilex opaca is making a spreading tree but no berries. We…

…seedling alders are no surprise. Rather more interesting are the seedling ilex and rhododendron. The Ilex might be a mixture of I. opaca, I. kingiana, I. koehneana or I. latifolia…

…I then hunt the American Ilex opaca between the ferneries. Despite its holly like trunk I suspect this is not the American species but an Osmanthus. More research needed. Osmanthus?…