Kurogane holly
Ilex rotunda Thunb.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 20 m
- wide
- —
Aquifoliaceae
Formerly Ilex koshunensis, Ilex microcarpa, Ilex sasakii, Ilex unicanaliculata, and 1 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. & SE. China to Indo-China, S. Korea, C. & S. Japan to TaiwanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 20 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia 18–20 m; Plants for a Future 20–20 m
- Coldest it survives
- -23.3 °C (USDA zone 6a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (2)
- Simplified Chinese
- 羊不食, 救必应, 消癀药
- Chinese
- 救必应, 鐵冬青, 铁冬青
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Ilex rotunda (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.