Holly is a plant that permeates pop-culture. Whether you’re singing a holiday classic with your grandmother, walking along some neighborhood hedges, or brewing a cup of Yerba Mate to start your day, holly, also known as the plant genus Ilex , is often nearby when you know where to look. Today we’ll dig into 20+ different types of holly and holly trees. Whether it's the kitchen table or a corner of the living room, make sure children feel comfortable to get creative. Fun Fact: This type of holly attracts butterflies and is a larval host to the Columbia silkmoth. It prefers moist habitats such as bogs and marshes

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Decorate your home in style this Christmas with this fabulous Festive Holly Tinsel. This traditional tinsel features gorgeous holly accents in an assortment of either gold or silver, helping you add a lovely classic feel to your space. Perfect for draping over bookshelves, mirrors, mantelpieces, and more, as well as wrapping around your bannisters or tree. Fun Fact: The fruit of Carolina holly is more elliptical than round , which can help to distinguish this variety from American holly, which is often growing nearby. Holly plants are flowering perennials, flowering in spring and early summer. Bees conduct pollination, turning the small green ball inside female flowers into red fruit. Fun Fact: This variety was first propagated and introduced in New York in 1950 by Kathleen K. Meserve. Today the plant is strongly associated with the Christmas season. In pre-victorian Europe, “Christmas trees” weren’t firs and spruces – they were holly trees .A great activity both for practising reading Christmas-themed vocabulary, and drawing skills. Children will be asked to draw pictures of objects like holly, tinsel, snowflakes and more. Fun Fact: The botanical name is a reference to this species being a significant ceremonial plant to indigenous communities in the Southeastern United States that induced vomiting. Fun Fact: Deer and 18 species of birds eat the red berries in the United States according to the USDA. Keep the environment as accessible as possible, for example by keeping paper and craft materials in a special drawer or labelled box.

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When these branches of green leaves and red berries are cut, they are primarily used as an ornamental Christmas holly plant in winter plant displays along with spruce tips, boxwood, and Eucalyptus. The vibrant holly berries stand out particularly well in the winter landscapes of temperate zones. Your children could draw their own Christmas decorations on to this nice Christmas tree template. We also have a fun Christmas Symmetry Worksheet too. When buying partner items like this one, your contract of sale will be with our Range Plus Partner instead of us. Fun Fact: This plant is also commonly known as Kurogane holly and was one of the first plants to return to Hiroshima after the city was bombed by the United States in WWII.But the folk significance of holly stretches even deeper into certain cultures’ collective history. For example, pre-Christian European traditions linked holly plants to various thunder gods. People planted holly outside their door, believing it would prevent lightning from striking the house. In Celtic mythology, the Holly King is often woven into lore as a giant and often linked to the “green man” archetype of Arthurian legend.