catberry Aquifoliaceae Ilex mucronata

Leaf:Alternate, simple, deciduous, entire or finely serrate (mostly near the tip), lance to egg-shaped or obovate, wedge-shaped at the leaf base and mucronate at the tip, glabrous and green above, paler below, to 2 1/2 inches long; petioles often purple; often crowded at the branch tips.
Flower:Species is mostly dioecious; both male and females are long-stalked and yellow to white, appearing with the leaves.
Fruit:Round red velvety drupes borne cherry-like on long stalks, 1/3 inch in diameter; ripening in fall but persisting into the winter.
Twig:Slender, red-brown, with scattered light lenticels, buds dome-shaped,leaf scars small with one vascular bundle scar.
Bark:Thin, smooth or somewhat warty, and grayish brown.
Form:A shrub that reaches heights of 10 feet.
leaf flower fruit twig bark form map
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