Yaupon Holly Texas Native a popular houseplant named for

a popular houseplant named for its surprise "discovery" in a shipment of ferns from Philadelphia to Boston in 1894

It blooms for an impressively long time

This charming clump-forming perennial grows gracefully to heights of 1

shiny black drupe

it can handle heat and drought a bit better than its eastern and central North American sugar maple relatives

Yaupon Holly Texas Native a popular houseplant named forIlex vomitoria Common names include Yaupon Holly, Yaupon, Cassina Yaupon Holly is native to a variety of areas including sandy woods, dunes, open fields, forest edges and wet swamps. This is a thicket forming, broadleaf evergreen shrub or small tree that typically grows upright. Often trimmed into hedges. Yaupon is slow growing and tends to get thick and twiggy on the inside, making it ideal for dense hedges but requiring careful pruning to shape it