As undergrowth of beech and spruce forests, less often in oak and birch forests. On moderately dry or fresh, fertile, slightly acidic or acidic sandy or stony loams.
Form: Evergreen large shrub, upright, with a symmetrical, narrowly conical crown with protruding branches.
Size: 4 m high and 1.5 m wide. Annual growth in height 15 cm, in width 10 cm.
Leaves: Arranged alternately, relatively small, ovoid, 4-5 cm long, gray-green marbled, with a wide white stripe, most often without spines or with very rare spines at the tip of the leaf.
Flowering: The plant is dioecious, small white, female flowers with 4 sterile apical leaves, ovary and stigma, male flowers without ovary and stigma, May - June.
Roots: Fleshy, thick main deep roots, superficial - thin, very widespread, forms root shoots. Therefore, in the forest it quickly spreads in width.
Light: Partial shade, and on moist soils it loves light.
Soil: Prefers, not too poor, moderately dry, moist humus acidic - neutral soils, grows well on slightly alkaline substrates and on dry soils and partial shade.
It is better to buy seedlings of holly "Silver Queen" grown in Ukraine in a plastic pot with prolonged fertilizers, so the plant is not dug up with damage to the root system and after planting it is guaranteed to take root. But the biggest advantage of buying a potted plant is that it can be planted without buying additional fertilizers from March to November, even on the hottest days of summer.
Fruits: round, 5-7 mm in diameter, orange-red.
Characteristics: suffers from frost.
