The branches of boxwood are cylindrical, gray white in color, and the smaller branches are quadrangular, with pubescence or no hair on the opposite sides. And holly's branch shape is also cylindrical, the color of twigs is light green, are hairless.
The leaves of boxwood are leathery, opposite, in the shape of broad ellipse, oval, broad obovate or oblong. The apex is round or blunt, often with small notches, not sharp. The base is round, sharp or wedge-shaped, and the lower part often has micro hairs. However, the leaves of holly are mostly single leaf alternate, rarely opposite, which are leathery, membranous or papery. Oval, oblong, ovate or lanceolate, apex acuminate, base cuneate or obtuse, sometimes young leaves serrate.
