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Ilex decidua



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Ilex decidua
Possumhaw

The young gray-brown stems are slender and smooth, zig-zagging slightly and bearing sharp, thorn-like spurs. Older stems turn light gray and have many thin lateral branches that are borne at nearly a right angle to the main stem and have small warty lenticels.

 
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