Ilex aquifolium
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Ilex aquifolium
Image: © Bob Harvey Taken: 7 Aug 2013
I very much suspect that this holly is not self-sown or wild. It is growing in the banks of the stream behind the houses in Beech Avenue, and is heavy with Berries. Holly is dioecious, needing a male plant to polinate the female ones. There is a smaller Holly a metre behind - with no berries. I deduce that this is the male and I think it probable they were planted together by one of the householders.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.774774
Longitude
-0.384747