There are many kinds of holly, such as plum leaf holly, ash holly, banyan leaf holly, fine flower holly, Guangdong holly, and big leaf Holly (Kuding tea).
Deciduous shrub, 3M high. There are long branches and short branches, the twigs are glabrous, green, brown after drying, with obvious white lenticels, and the long branches are slender.
Produced in Xianju, Longquan, Qingyuan, Taishun and other places. Born in valley, roadside shrub or broad-leaved forest with altitude of 400-1000m. It is distributed in Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi.
The root is used for medicine, which has the effect of clearing away heat and toxin, eliminating swelling and removing blood stasis; the leaf contains ursolic acid, which has a certain effect on coronary heart disease and angina pectoris.
Evergreen trees, 12m high. Branchlets yellowish brown or reddish brown, glabrous.
The leaves are leathery and produced in Kaihua, Xianju, Linhai, Suichang, Songyang, Longquan, Qingyuan, Yunhe, Jingning, Jinyun, Lishui, Ruian, Wencheng, Taishun Pingyang, etc.
It is born in the valley or stream side mixed forest or shrub with an altitude of 400-800m.
It is distributed in provinces, regions and Taiwan to the south of the Yangtze River Basin. Japan has it, too. The wood texture is straight, the structure is fine and the material is medium. It can be used for furniture making, fine work, art and other materials.
Small evergreen trees, 10 meters high. Bark dark gray.
Branchlets angulate, black after drying, rusty or tawny pubescent.
Produced in Longquan, Qingyuan, Taishun, Wencheng, Pingyang and other places.
It is born in the sparse forest near the hillside, valley and ravine with an altitude of 250-900m.
It is distributed in Jiangxi, Fujian, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan.
Large evergreen trees, up to 20 meters high. Bark gray black, all glabrous.
Branchlets thick, yellow brown, with longitudinal cracks and edges.
It grows in the evergreen broad-leaved forest on the hillside and valley with an altitude of 250-800 meters, and it is also commonly cultivated beside the houses.
It is distributed in the provinces of the Yangtze River Basin, Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi. Japan has it, too.
Leaves and fruits are used for medicinal purposes, and also for landscaping.
Deciduous shrub or small tree, 2-6m high. Bark chestnut brown, without lenticels.
Branchlets slender, densely pubescent. Produced in Jinhua, Suichang, Songyang, Longquan, Qingyuan, Yunhe, Jingning, Lishui, Taishun, Pingyang and other places.
It was born in the hillside thickets with an altitude of 200-900m. It is distributed in Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi.
Evergreen trees, 20 meters high. Bark light gray, branchlets angular, reddish brown, glabrous.
It is produced in Hangzhou, Lin'an, Putuo, Xianju, Longquan and other places, and it is born in the warm, wet and fertile sparse forest or hillside.
It is distributed from the south of the Yangtze River basin to the southwest provinces and Taiwan Province, as well as Japan and North Korea. Bark, roots and leaves are used for medicine.
Shrubs or small trees, 1-10 meters high; young branches nearly quadrangular, with longitudinal edges and grooves, puberulent or only puberulent in grooves, older twigs with raised crescent leaf scars, not obvious lenticels; apical buds conical, puberulent.
