Maryland Dwarf American Holly
| Qty | 1-4 | 5-9 | 10-39 | 40+ |
| Price per Plant | $22.50 | $7.00 | $6.50 | $5.00 |
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Ilex opaca ‘Maryland Dwarf’
The Maryland Dwarf American Holly cultivar is odd – very odd. Not a tree per se, but more of a mounding, spreading shrub. For more information about the Maryland Dwarf American Holly and how to care for the plant, please visit www.americanholly.org. Planting instruction can be found at boydnursery.net/arrival-care-notes/.
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| Diseases & Insects | Holly leaf miner, bud moth, scales, beetles, whitefly, berry midge, southern red mite, tar spot, leaf spots, cankers, bacterial blight, twig die back, spot anthracnose, leaf rot, leaf drop, powdery mildews, spine spot (nonparasitic) and leaf scorch (physiological); leaf miner and scale are particularly troublesome |
| Family | Aquifoliaceae |
| Flowers | Flowers are staminate in 3 to 9 flowered cymes; pistillate solitary; dull white to yellow with a single green nodule (ovary and future berry) at the center; flowers have 4 non-functional stamens; berry-like, dull red rounded drupe, fruit is borne singly on .25" long stalks, maturing in October and persisting into winter; fruit display can be spectacular on good selections with a strong pollinator |
| Growth Rate | |
| Hardiness Range | zone 5a – 9b *need help finding your hardiness zone? |
| Leaves | Leaves are alternate, simple, evergreen, elliptic, and 1.5-3.5" long and half as wide; with remote spiny teeth, leaves are glossy, dark green and have a slight curl to the edges; not as full in appearance as other American Holly cultivars |
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| Primary Features | |
| Sex | dioecious (Female) |
| Size | 2-3 feet tall at maturity with 5-10 foot spread |
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