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Case Study
Butcher's Broom plant. Please contact us to learn
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Definition:
The name Knee Holly appears to have been given it from its rising to about
the height of a man's knee (though occasionally specimens are found
growing about 3 feet high), and from its having, like the true Holly,
prickly leaves, which are also evergreen.
Its tough, green, erect, striated
stems, which are destitute of bark, send out from the upper part many
short branches, plentifully furnished with very rigid leaves, which are
really a mere expansion of the stem, and terminate each in a single sharp
spine. The small greenish-white flowers are solitary growing from the
centre of the leaves and blossom in the early spring. They are dioecious,
i.e. stamens and pistils are on different plants, as is also mostly the
case with the Holly and Mistletoe. The corolla is deeply six-cleft, the
stamens, in the one kind of flower, connected at the base, the style, in
the fertile flowers, surrounded by a nectary. The fertile flowers are
succeeded by scarlet berries as large as cherries, which are ripe in
September, and remain attached to the plant all the winter and cause it
often to be picked for room decoration.
Another member of the same family is Ruscus
racemosus or Alexandrinus, a favourite evergreen shrub with the
leaf-like branches unarmed, and the racemes of small flowers
terminal. It is the original of the 'poets' laurel' so often seen in
classic prints. It, too has red berries - smaller than those of the
Butcher's Broom.
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